Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 3/6] iotests: Add casenotrun report to bash tests

[Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:44:11PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/19/19 12:30 PM, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
> > The new function _casenotrun() is to be invoked if a test case cannot
> > be run for some reason. The user will be notified by a message passed
> > to the function.
> > 
> 
> Oh, I assume this is a sub-test granularity; if we need to skip
> individual items.
> 
> I'm good with this, but we should CC Cleber Rosa, who has struggled
> against this in the past, too.
>

The discussion I was involved in was not that much about skipping
tests per se, but about how to determine if a test should be skipped
or not.  At that time, we proposed an integration with the build
system, but the downside (and the reason for not pushing it forward)
was the requirement to run the iotest outside of a build tree.

> > Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
> > index 6e461a1..1089050 100644
> > --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
> > +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
> > @@ -428,6 +428,13 @@ _notrun()
> >      exit
> >  }
> >  
> > +# bail out, setting up .casenotrun file
> > +#
> > +_casenotrun()
> > +{
> > +    echo "    [case not run] $*" >>"$OUTPUT_DIR/$seq.casenotrun"
> > +}
> > +
> >  # just plain bail out
> >  #
> >  _fail()
> > 
> 
> seems fine to me otherwise.
> 
> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Yeah, this also LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>