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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] Acceptance Tests: add variants
 definition for architectures
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To: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Caio Carrara <ccarrara@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= <pmathieu@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>

On 10/04/18 17:14, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> One of the Avocado features relevant to virtualization testing is the
> ability to reuse tests in different scenarios, known as variants.
> This adds a JSON based variants file, that can be used to run most
> tests in a number of different architectures.  It can be run with:
> 
>    $ avocado run \
>      --json-variants-load=tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json \
>      --filter-by-tags='-x86_64' -- tests/acceptance/
> 
> Currently this covers 5 architectures, resulting in the execution
> of 25 different combinations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 100644 tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json
> 
> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json b/tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..a7a2570553
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/acceptance/variants/arch.json
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +[{"paths":["/run/*"],"variant":[["/run/aarch64",[["/run/aarch64", "arch", "aarch64"]]]],"variant_id": "aarch64"},{"paths":["/run/*"],"variant":[["/run/ppc",[["/run/ppc", "arch", "ppc"]]]],"variant_id": "ppc"},{"paths":["/run/*"],"variant":[["/run/ppc64",[["/run/ppc64", "arch", "ppc64"]]]],"variant_id": "ppc64"},{"paths":["/run/*"],"variant":[["/run/s390x",[["/run/s390x", "arch", "s390x"]]]],"variant_id": "s390x"},{"paths":["/run/*"],"variant":[["/run/x86_64",[["/run/x86_64", "arch", "x86_64"]]]],"variant_id": "x86_64"}]
> 

(Side comment: you can parse json? :) That's awesome. Then I *am*
tempted to suggest that Philippe's work parse the firmware metadata
format, in the long run.)

Laszlo