where are the testing docs ?

[Ondřej Surý]

FTR the test suite is meant to be used by developers. There’s little value to use it for validating the production systems.

Generally speaking, having the dependencies and test interfaces (`sudo bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up`) and running `make check` is enough.

Ondřej 
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> On 6. 5. 2021, at 17:03, Dennis Clarke via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> On 5/6/21 10:50, Tony Finch wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey there. I looked in the README and I dont see an INSTALL file at all
>>> so I have to assume that the testing docs exist somewhere.
>> 
>> Have a look at
>> 
>> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/tree/main/bin/tests/system
> 
> Good stuff, thank you. I was searching high and low and I did see :
> 
>    https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00768
> 
> However that says nothing at all about running the testsuite after a
> nice clean build. Which is non-trivial now that Makefiles are slightly
> borked but that is another issue.
> 
> Perhaps the docs at https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00768 can be updated to
> at least point to the gutlab link above?
> 
>> 
>> There are some more notes in:
>> 
>> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/doc/dev
>> 
> 
> I will glance there but for now I think the testsuite should be able to
> at least run.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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