Automated testing with Sharness

[Justus Winter]

Hi,

Quoting Dashamir Hoxha (2016-02-15 08:34:34)
> They are based on Sharness:
>  - https://github.com/mlafeldt/sharness
> which is derived from the testing framework of Git:
>  - https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/t/README
> 
> I wonder whether it would be interesting to use Sharness
> for writting testing scripts for GnuPG as well.

We are in the process of replacing our test suite.  One important
motivation for that switch is that we need to run the tests on systems
that have no Bourne shell.  Sharness wouldn't solve that.

You can find our prototype in the branch 'justus/scm-6'.

Cheers,
Justus