[Pkg-javascript-devel] doubt with autopkgtest for javascript packages

[Xavier]

Hi,

Yes, do it, thanks!

Cheers,
Xavier


Le 9 novembre 2020 22:08:46 GMT+01:00, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi Utkarsh and Xavier,
>
>On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 5:08 AM Utkarsh Gupta <utkarsh at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sudip,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:21 AM Sudip Mukherjee
>> <sudipm.mukherjee at 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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