Where should I put my tests

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:00 +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote: 
> Dear all, I am kind of lost when it comes to writing tests because I 
> don't really know where I should put them.
> 
> Today I made a simple search in s4 code and found the following:
> 
> mat at ares:/usr/local/src/samba4/source4$ find . -type d -name "*test*"
> ./auth/credentials/tests
> ./auth/gensec/tests
> ./auth/tests
> ./client/tests
> ./dsdb/common/tests
> ./dsdb/samdb/ldb_modules/tests
> ./dsdb/schema/tests
> ./lib/ldb/tests
> ./lib/ldb/tests/schema-tests
> ./lib/messaging/tests
> ./lib/registry/tests
> ./libcli/security/tests
> ./librpc/tests
> ./param/tests
> ./scripting/python/samba/tests
> ./selftest
> ./setup/tests
> ./torture/tests
> ./utils/tests
> mat at ares:/usr/local/src/samba4/source4$ find . -type d -name "*tortu*"
> ./scripting/python/samba/torture
> ./torture
> 
> So first question: what's the difference between "tests" and "torture" ?
> The second question: where do I put my tests ?
Depends on what sort of tests you're writing. Generally the tests should
be near the code they test if they're specific to a particular
subsystem.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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