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Virgil Dupras 7cf3ed38da Extract str.asm from core.asm and make core included by userspace 
Most of register fiddling routines (which is now the only thing contained
in care.asm) are used by almost all userspace apps, often in inner loops.

That makes the penalty of using jump tables for those a bit too high.
Moreover, it burdens jump tables needlessly.

Because this unit is very small (now that string routines are out), it makes
sense to always include it in binaries.
2019-11-14 10:14:15 -05:00
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unit Extract str.asm from core.asm and make core included by userspace 2019-11-14 10:14:15 -05:00
zasm Disable test failing on Travis 2019-11-13 22:37:00 -05:00
Makefile Move /parts/z80 to /kernel 2019-05-19 11:19:41 -04:00
README.md Add test documentation 2019-11-08 10:37:52 -05:00

README.md

Testing Collapse OS

This folder contains Collapse OS' automated testing suite. To run, it needs tools/emul to be built. You can run all tests with make.

zasm

This folder tests zasm's assembling capabilities by assembling test source files and compare the results with expected binaries. These binaries used to be tested with a golden standard assembler, scas, but at some point compatibility with scas was broken, so we test against previously generated binaries, making those tests essentially regression tests.

Those reference binaries sometimes change, especially when we update code in core libraries because some tests include them. In this case, we have to update binaries to the new expected value by being extra careful not to introduce a regression in test references.

unit

Those tests target specific routines to test and test them using tools/emul/runbin which:

  1. Loads the specified binary
  2. Runs it until it halts
  3. Verifies that A is zero. If it's not, we're in error and we display the value of A.

Test source code has no harnessing and is written in a very "hands on" approach. At the moment, debugging a test failure is a bit tricky because the error code often doesn't tell us much.

The convention is to keep a testNum counter variable around and call nexttest after each success so that we can easily have an idea of where we fail.

Then, if you need to debug the cause of a failure, well, you're on your own. However, there are tricks.

  1. Run unit/runtests.sh <name of file to test> to target a specific test unit.
  2. Insert a halt to see the value of A at any given moment: it will be your reported error code (if 0, runbin will report a success).