Really interesting software engineering page.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Oct 1 17:44:19 UTC 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:13:35AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2015 14:12:18 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:49:10PM -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> > > On 09/25/2015 10:53 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > >How the Chrome browser gets built:
> > > >
> > > >https://medium.com/@aboodman/in-march-2011-i-drafted-an-article-explainin
> > > >g-how-the-team-responsible-for-google-chrome-ships-c479ba623a1b
> > > >
> > > >Lots of lessons for Samba here I think !
> > > >
> > > >Jeremy.
> > > 
> > > I would love that you spell them out.
> > 
> > Well mostly the unit testing part.
> 
> Jakub and I are working on that to bring unit tests for the ldb API with 
> cmocka [1]. 
> 
> Why cmocka?
> 
> a) You can run tests in standalone ldb (we really need this for packaging)!
> b) It is small and easy to use
> c) It has a *fully documented API*
> d) Supports mock objects [2]
> 
> [1] https://cmocka.org/
> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/558106/

Great news Andreas - thanks !



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