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@@ -5,16 +5,19 @@ TCP ports or Unix domain sockets. They're all designed to run concurrently with other tests to minimize test time, but tests may be run independently as well. -We write our tests in Bourne shell because that's what we're -comfortable writing integration tests with. +New tests are written in Perl 5 because we need a stable language +to test real-world behavior and Ruby introduces incompatibilities +at a far faster rate than Perl 5. Perl is Ruby's older cousin, so +it should be easy-to-learn for Rubyists. + +Old tests are in Bourne shell and slowly being ported to Perl 5. == Requirements -* {Ruby 1.9.3+}[https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/] (duh!) +* {Ruby 2.5.0+}[https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/] +* {Perl 5.14+}[https://www.perl.org/] # your distro should have it * {GNU make}[https://www.gnu.org/software/make/] -* {socat}[http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/] * {curl}[https://curl.haxx.se/] -* standard UNIX shell utilities (Bourne sh, awk, sed, grep, ...) We do not use bashisms or any non-portable, non-POSIX constructs in our shell code. We use the "pipefail" option if available and @@ -26,9 +29,13 @@ with {dash}[http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/] and To run the entire test suite with 8 tests running at once: - make -j8 + make -j8 && prove -vw + +To run one individual test (Perl5): + + prove -vw t/integration.t -To run one individual test: +To run one individual test (shell): make t0000-simple-http.sh |