[dpdk-dev] tools brainstorming

[Simon Kågström]

On 2015-03-20 15:51, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> As we are lazy developers, writing guidelines is not enough. It must be
> coupled with the integration of some tools. Let's work on these ones:
> 	- make autotests easier and faster to run for smoke testing
> 	- automated basic testpmd check
> 	- build check with various options combinations
> 	- abi check (started with validate-abi.sh)
> 	- static analyze (clang, free online coverity)
> 	- comment check (doxygen, codespell, kerspell)
> 	- format check (customized checkpatch)

Code coverage for automated tests can be useful as well.

In a way I'm speaking in my own interests here since I've written a tool
to do just this (and produce nice HTML etc output), kcov, that can be
found at github (https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/kcov).

// Simon