selftest history (was: Re: [PATCH] Add libsmbclient list shares test)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:12:29AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-08-28 at 16:02 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 
> > Yes I already found and fixed that. It still fails
> > due to the libsmbclient tests being invoked from
> > inside source3/selftest/tests.py, whereas Andreas's
> > change only fixed the smburl in source4/selftest/tests.py
> > 
> > Whoever thought (a) writing this stuff in python was a good
> > idea and (b) naming things identially inside source3 and
> > source4 is responsible for a *LOT* of wasted engineering
> > time and effort..
> 
> What happened is that we had two identical test systems in source3 and
> source4.  They were totally independent at one point!
> 
> What you are seeing is stuff not merged into common yet (a task clearly
> overdue).  
> 
> Sadly the definitions are not identical, because the 'samba3' and
> 'samba4' invocations of the same smbtorture code run with different
> options (--target=samba3 or --target=samba4) and produce a different
> prefix (samba3. and samba4.), which is encoded in the knownfail files
> (et al). 
> 
> Finally, to ensure nothing was lost during the merge (stitching might
> be a better expression), we run most of our tests twice, many three
> times.  A careful eye to removing this duplication would be most
> welcome. 
> 
> Your assistance to remedy some of this is appreciated.

I still blame python :-).

Signed, "A Concerned Engineer" :-) :-).