[omniORB] Regression suite for omniORB?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 7 March, Jan Olderdissen wrote:

> I have the unfortunate task of porting OmniORB to IBM's Visual Age 3.5. Yes,
> I know that compiler is eight years old and was obsoleted in the year 2000.
> It's a long story.
> 
> Anyhow, I was wondering if there is a regression suite that ported code
> should pass. A brief visitation of the source tree didn't turn up anything
> that looked like it.

Sorry for the delay in replying to this.

There is an omniORB test suite, but it's not part of the omniORB
distribution. Once upon a time, there was an OMG project called COST,
for CORBA Open Source Testing, which used to live at cost.omg.org. The
omniORB test suite used to live there, but the project died from lack of
interest, and the cost.omg.org server hasn't been live for years.

I have a copy of all the source from cost.omg.org, which includes the
omniORB test suite, and test from ORBacus, Orbix and Visibroker, and
some other stuff as well. Back when AT&T were trying to push the COST
project, I ported the ORBacus tests to work with omniORB, so there are
quite a few tests available for omniORB.

The slight sticking point is that the source isn't currently available
anywhere. I could put it in omniORB's SourceForge CVS, or I could create
a new SourceForge project for it. The other inconvenience is that all
the documentation for the tests was on a wiki on cost.omg.org, and I
don't have that. There also isn't any license information in the source
tree, although everyone agreed to license their tests under the LGPL.

Anyone have any suggestions about it?

Cheers,

Duncan.

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