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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: djwong@kernel.org, guaneryu@gmail.com
Cc: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>,
	Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org, guan@eryu.me,
	amir73il@gmail.com, ebiggers@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:00:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <162370441083.3800603.11964136184573090396.stgit@locust> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162370433910.3800603.9623820748404628250.stgit@locust>

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

Update the documentation to outline the new requirements for test files
so that we can generate group files during build.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
---
 README |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/README b/README
index 048491a6..ab298ca9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Running tests:
     - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
     - ./check '*/06?'
     - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
-      See the 'group' file for details on groups
+      See the tests/*/group.list files after building xfstests to learn about
+      each test's group memberships.
     - If you want to run all tests regardless of what group they are in
       (including dangerous tests), use the "all" group: ./check -g all
     - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
@@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ Test script environment:
 
     When developing a new test script keep the following things in
     mind.  All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
-    available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
-    sourced.
+    available to the script once the "common/preamble" file has been
+    sourced and the "_begin_fstest" function has been called.
 
      1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory.  If you want to
 	do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do
@@ -249,6 +250,18 @@ Test script environment:
 	  in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
 	  and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
 
+     6. Test group membership: Each test can be associated with any number
+	of groups for convenient selection of subsets of tests.  Test names
+	can be any sequence of non-whitespace characters.  Test authors
+	associate a test with groups by passing the names of those groups as
+	arguments to the _begin_fstest function:
+
+	_begin_fstest auto quick subvol snapshot
+
+	The build process scans test files for _begin_fstest invocations and
+	compiles the group list from that information.  In other words, test
+	files must call _begin_fstest or they will not be run.
+
 Verified output:
 
     Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-14 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-14 20:58 [PATCHSET v2 00/13] fstests: move test group lists into test files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 01/13] fstests: fix group check in new script Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  5:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 02/13] misc: move exit status into trap handler Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  5:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 03/13] fstests: refactor test boilerplate code Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  5:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 20:47   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-17  0:02     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 04/13] fstests: add tool migrate group membership data to test files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  7:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 05/13] fstests: move test group info " Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16 20:53   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 06/13] fstests: clean up open-coded golden output Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  5:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17  0:06     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 07/13] fstests: automatically generate group files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16  7:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17  0:13     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-17  7:56       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17 17:15         ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-18 13:45           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-18 15:32             ` Amir Goldstein
2021-06-18 15:56               ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-21  5:25                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-21  6:38                   ` Eryu Guan
2021-06-21 16:14                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-21  5:20               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 08/13] fstests: convert nextid to use automatic group generation Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16 20:54   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 09/13] fstests: adapt the new test script to our new group tagging scheme Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 10/13] check: use generated group files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16 20:55   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-14 20:59 ` [PATCH 11/13] fstests: remove " Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16 20:56   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-14 21:00 ` [PATCH 12/13] fstests: remove test group management code Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-16 20:58   ` Eric Biggers
2021-06-17  0:08     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-14 21:00 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2021-06-16 21:00   ` [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files Eric Biggers
2021-06-17  0:11     ` Darrick J. Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-21 23:10 [PATCHSET v3 00/13] fstests: move test group lists into test files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-21 23:11 ` [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-08 17:19 [PATCHSET v1 00/13] fstests: move test group lists into test files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-11  8:23   ` Chandan Babu R
2021-06-14 19:39   ` Allison Henderson
2021-06-14 20:49     ` Darrick J. Wong

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