# Copyright (C) 2006, The Perl Foundation.
# $Id: README 17094 2007-02-20 20:10:40Z paultcochrane $

This directory contains the Parrot test suite.
For details, see the documentation in '../docs/tests.pod'.
For status of the testing effort, see 'TESTS.STATUS.pod' in this directory.

benchmark:    Run all benchmarks

compilers:    Mini languages distributed with Parrot

configure:    Perl modules of configuration subsystem

codingstd:    Conventions and Guidelines for Parrot Source Code

distro:       Tests run before a distro is released

doc:          Completeness and sanity of the documentation

dynpmc:       Dynamic PMCs

examples:     Check whether the examples are still working

library:      Parrot modules

native_pbc:   Parrot Byte Code

op:           Try to cover all core operators

perl:         Test Perl5 modules used for configuration, building and testing of Parrot.

pmc:          Try to cover all builtin PMCs

run:          Mostly command line options of the 'parrot' executable

src:          Tests written in C. XXX Is this a meaningful category?

stress:       Stress testing

tools:        Executables besides 'parrot'
