Re: RFC 4408 test-suite 2008.08 released -- Statistics and thanks!

Julian Mehnle <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:58 +0000
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Julian Mehnle wrote:
> A new release, 2008.08, of the RFC 4408 test-suite has been finalized:

Here are some statistics on the test suite:

S#  Scenario                                  Tests    RRs  Spec References
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1  Initial processing                            7      4  4.3
 2  Record lookup                                 7      7  4.4
 3  Selecting records                            10     19  4.5
 4  Record evaluation                            12     13  4.3, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.3, 4.7, 5, 8.1
 5  ALL mechanism syntax                          5      6  5.1
 6  PTR mechanism syntax                          6     12  5.5
 7  A mechanism syntax                           23     27  5.3, 8.1
 8  Include mechanism semantics and syntax        9     14  5.2
 9  MX mechanism syntax                          21     32  5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1
10  EXISTS mechanism syntax                       3      4  5.7
11  IP4 mechanism syntax                          9     10  5, 5.6
12  IP6 mechanism syntax                          9      7  5, 5.6
13  Semantics of exp and other modifiers         20     30  6, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, A
14  Macro expansion rules                        21     42  8.1
15  Processing limits                             9     48  10.1
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total:                                          171    275

I think the test suite has been a great success story!  Various people
have contributed to what has helped a number of implementations in
becoming next to 100% compliant with quite sophisticated a specification.

Thanks to everyone involved!

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