Writing cmocka Tests

Unit Testing

Samba started to also implement unit tests. This gives an overview about cmocka the unit testing framework we use. As a start we suggest to read the following LWN article:

Unit testing with mock objects in C

cmocka its API is very well documented, you can find it here.

Best practice

Normally you can take it as a rule of thumb to write one text executable for one .c file! In the test you do #include "foo.c". This way you can also write tests for functions which are declared static.

If you have a huge file or complex functions, create one test binary for a bunch of similar functions or just one.

Writing a cmocka test for Samba

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