Hi Utkarsh and Xavier,
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:08 AM Utkarsh Gupta <utka...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sudip,
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:21 AM Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > While going through packages to find autopkgtests which are
> > superficial I noticed that some of of the javascript packages are
> > doing just:
> > nodejs -e "require('foo.js');"
> >
> > After reading the documentation at [1], it seems that it will just
> > load the object in cache so that the exported properties and methods
> > of the object can be used in the code.
> > Can you please confirm if my understanding is correct and the tests
> > are indeed superficial in nature as it is just loading the object and
> > not actually using any of the exported methods or properties.
>
> You're indeed correct and these are just superficial test which just
> helps in the preliminary check that things are in order (syntax wise
> and that the module can be used and loaded).
> From what I remember, most of these (at least from a bunch of those
> that I have touched) are already marked as superficial. In case we can
> get a list of tests that aren't yet superficial, fixing them should be
> trivial! :)
>
> Thanks for all your work on this! \o/Thanks to both of you for the confirmation. I have attached the list. Do you want me to add them in my MBF list and raise bug reports for them? -- Regards Sudip
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