Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

I finally added beginnings of unit tests to Dovecot v1.1 code tree: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4e4a5d6bb2cb

Great! Unit testing is good, even though it's boring and not very glamorous.

I wonder if you have seen or considered libtap, possibly as an optional dependency for those who care about running the tests?

http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap

It looks like it could almost drop in, in place of some of your existing test helpers. It is also compatible with a variety of end user test tools. However, I could see hesitation in adding external dependencies where they aren't really necessary.

If you had TAP compatibility through libtap or other means, I could easily drop dovecot into our existing suite of nightly smoke tests on FreeBSD.

I'm probably going to be pretty lazy at adding more of those tests, so if you've ever wanted to get your own code to Dovecot, now would be a great time to do it! :)

With a 5 month old and a 4 year old on hand, "copious free time" isn't my strong point, but I'll at least attempt to provide tests with any future bug reports.

Thanks! Alan Ferrency