On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:21:22PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote: > > We have nearly five hundred test files. > > This is a problem why?
Because most of these are potentially a subject of similar hypothesis. > > ... whereas the libc-tests should be strictly about functional verification. > > This about functional testing. This is whether the environment code works > with and without real locking, with and without "libpthread" present. I'd say this is about non-functional testing, but this is just semantics. The kind of granularity that is seeked here does not give that much useful additional information. Alternatively, by linking the old "t_environment" test with pthreads, we now know also whether this is caused by linking alone. - Jukka.
