First, compile the software using the install guide instructions. You'll need to build Kitchen Sync for both mysql and postgresql if you'd like to run the test suite.
To run the tests you should install both databases on your local machine. You'll then need to create a test databases to use with each:
mysqladmin -u root create ks_test
createdb --encoding unicode ks_test
You can override these database names, and if necessary the usernames and passwords it will
use, by setting the variables ENDPOINT_DATABASE_NAME, ENDPOINT_DATABASE_USERNAME, and
ENDPOINT_DATABASE_PASSWORD.
If you need to use different usernames etc. for the two databases, you can instead use:
MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME and POSTGRESQL_DATABASE_NAME;
MYSQL_DATABASE_USERNAME and POSTGRESQL_DATABASE_USERNAME;
and MYSQL_DATABASE_PASSWORD and POSTGRESQL_DATABASE_PASSWORD.
You can also override the host or port that it uses if you want to test against a particular
instance; see test_helper.rb for more.
You'll also need to install Ruby 2.0 or later, and the bundle of gems (Kitchen Sync is written in pure C++, but the test suite is in Ruby):
cd test
bundle install
cd -
To run the suite, change to the kitchen_sync directory where you checked out the files, then:
cd build
cmake .. && make && make test
The normal cmake behavior is to report failures without giving any actual information about
them. To get cmake to output on failures, use CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE:
cmake .. && make && CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 make test
You can also inspect the full test output in Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log.