question about some kinds of testcases

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:51:29AM +0800, "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed that the following kinds of cases haven't been covered.
> Are these testcases needed?
> 
> 1. testcases of some options such as "-ttt","-E"...

Most of them definitely worth testing.

> 2. testcases of syscalls with "-p" option

There are some differences in the way how processes are attached/detached
with/without -p option, but syscall filtering mechanism shouldn't be
affected.

> 3. testcases of syscalls with multi-process program

We have some multi-process tests.  I'm not sure I understand your
question.

> 4. testcases of high load such as
> 	using deep loop program,
> 	using a lot of memory before running strace,
> 	running a lot of strace processes at same time

Yes if they really test strace and not the underlaying operating system.

> I'm appreciated if you can tell me which are needed.

Every test that extends test coverage is a plus.


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