Re: Lua test suite

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

>  1. Is there a working test-suite for version 5.1? How can I obtain it?

see mesage http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00716.html
(or get it at http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lua/lua5.1-tests.tar.gz)


>  2. Are there code coverage statistics available for the test suite?

Last time I measured it was around 98~99%.


>  3. Why isn't the test-suite part of the official distribution?

See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00668.html
(It is hard to do a harsh test suite as portable as Lua.)


>  4. An unrelated question: When a bug is found in the Lua
> interpreter/libraries and a patch is provided for it, is an
> appropriate test added to the test suite?

Yes.

-- Roberto