Status report: 2012-10-15 - 2012-10-21

• Finished porting the work directory cleanup logic to C so that it can be used by the independent testers.
• Moved the independent tester's code to a separate package. This is still a proof of concept, and it's easier for it to be developed this way. I'm not yet sure whether these will end up being part of the main Kyua package or not.
• Spent quite a bit of time setting up my Mac Mini G4 as a development machine. Yes, that machine is very slow, but that's one of the "good things": I'm trying to cut down bloat from the existing code, and I'll be "done" when the build times on such machine are reasonable!

Status report: 2012-10-08 - 2012-10-14

Wow, been so busy this week that I forgot to write this earlier...

• Ongoing work on the separate testers implementation. In particular, started migrating some of the "fs-management" code previously written in C++ to C so that it can be used from the separate binaries.

Status report: 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-07

• Generalized test helper functions into new "utils" modules in ATF. These provide common functionality needed when having to deal with test data files from within C and C++ code, for example. The result is that the Makefiles of Kyua are significantly simplified.
• More work towards independent, self-contained testers: cleaned up some existing code and added tests for some core functionality. Still not published though.

Status report: 2012-09-24 - 2012-09-30

Significant amount of progress towards the TestersDesign idea:

• Got approval from NetBSD's core to proceed with my integration plan.
• Introduced a new metadata object to hold the properties of a test case or a test program. The idea is that both will be able to carry the same properties at a later stage, and thus plain test programs will be able to share most of the features exposed to ATF-based test cases.
• Got rid of the test case and test program class hierarchies. Instead, just rely on an "interface type" field and generalize all the other concepts. This is a prerequisite for separate, pluggable testers. The result is a much simpler codebase and database schema. (Still mostly a "prototype" though, as there are many rough edges left behind.)
• Continued work on my preliminary C-based testers. So far focusing on extending ATF with a variety of helper functions that I frequently need to test command-line interfaces. (Should have done this ages ago...)

Update (20:46 EST): Forgot to include the most exciting news, which are now shown in the first item of the list!