Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger - Grant Report #2

Shlomi Fish reported:

2012-Sep-01:

• Plans for today:

  1. Report the segfaults in Devel::Cover.

     • Done:
       • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79338

  2. Add more tests.

  3. Respond to this message by Rocky Bernstein:

     • http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/08/msg191414.html
     • Done:
       • http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg191426.html

  4. Blog about the grant on my blogs.perl.org blog

     • Also mention the new CPAN distributions I have uploaded.
     • Mention the fact I made use of the b [filename]:[line] feature for debugging Games-Solitaire-Verify.
     • Done:
       • http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2012/09/grant-for-improving-the-perl-debugger-new-cpan-distributions.html

2012-Sep-02:

• Plans for today:

  • Handle the correspondence on:

    • http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/09/msg191426.html
    • Done:
      • TODO : Add link.

  • Handle Rocky's comment on:

    • http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/08/2012q3-grant-proposal-adding-t.html

  • Put a reminder on https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114284 for applying the patch there.

    • Done.

  • Write more tests for the debugger.

• I added a test for the L command, but it only checks that breakpoints are listed and not watch expressions and actions.

  • More tests are needed for it.

2012-Sep-04:

• Plans for today:

  • Write more tests for the L command.

    • Done.

  • Write more tests in general.

    • Wrote some for S. There are more commands in perldoc perldebug following it that already have test coverage.

2012-Sep-05:

• Handled the merging of my existing branch into blead, now that the patch with some of my changes was incorporated into blead:

  • https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114644

• Reported a bug with a new patch:

  • https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114756

2012-Sep-06:

• Added a test for the a [line] command command and noticed a failure (which had been reported to perl5-porters).

  • Corrected the lib/perl5db.pl and test now passes.

• Added a test for the A line command.

• Added a test for the A * command.

• Added two Bash functions to my _Theme perl/core to facilitate testing the entire perl core distribution, and running only lib/perl5db.t.