Not that anyone would confuse with something newt-related, but just
because it is more readable that way.
doc: tweak HACKING
addition that exercises it. If you fix a bug, add at least one test that
fails without the patch, but that succeeds once your patch is applied.
If you add a feature, add tests to exercise as much of the new code
-as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do:
+as possible. Note to run tests/misc/new-test in isolation you can do:
- (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes)
+ (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/new-test VERBOSE=yes)
There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use
tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones