<div dir="ltr">If it makes you feel any better LLVM is leery of it too, and it's only used, as you said, in specialized circumstances. It's especially useful for testing abstract data types, where you just want to test the interface to a self-contained, reusable class.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jingham@apple.com" target="_blank">jingham@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm a little leery about this. We don't test at the lldb_private layer because those tests are likely to be fragile and easily broken. For utility classes like NamedPipe I guess I don't so much mind, but I'm not sure its a great idea to do this more generally.<br>
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Jim<br>
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> On Jul 16, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Todd Fiala <<a href="mailto:tfiala@google.com">tfiala@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hey guys,<br>
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> Sometimes I have smaller bits of code I'd like to test in LLDB as I'm developing them (i.e. TDD-style) that are C++ and won't be exposed directly via Python. I'm not sure I've seen any facilities in the LLDB tests for adding such tests. Essentially I'd want to do something like a gtest or cppunit test.<br>
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> Do we have any mechanism for doing that currently? If we do, what is it? If we don't, how about adding some mechanism to do it after we figure out how we'd like to approach it? Or, if you have thoughts on a good, simple way to do it from Python that doesn't require extra Python bindings just to do it, that'd be fine by me as well.<br>
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> If we want to take a concrete example, here is one: I'm adding a NamedPipe class under the host dir. I'd like to make some simple tests for it, and test it under Linux, Windows and MacOSX. In the case of Windows, it would be the only real way for me to test that it's behaving exactly as I want at this point. This isn't the only time I've wanted C++-level tests at a fairly fine granularity, but it's a good example of it.<br>
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> Any thoughts?<br>
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