The correct advice should have been taken from c289c31 (t/t7006: ignore
return status of shell's unset builtin, 2010-06-02). A real-life issue
we experienced was with "unset", not with "export" (exporting an
unset variable may have similar portability issues, though).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some have found the wording of the description to be somewhat ambiguous
with respect to when it is desirable to use test_must_fail instead of
"! <git-command>". Tweak the wording somewhat to hopefully clarify that
it is _because_ test_must_fail can detect segmentation fault that it is
desirable to use it instead of "! <git-command>".
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no documentation in t/README for test_must_fail,
test_might_fail, test_cmp, or test_when_finished.
Reported-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a "Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind" subsection to the
"Writing Tests" documentation. Much of this is based on Junio C
Hamano's "Test your stuff" section in
<7vhbkj2kcr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>.
I turned it into a list of do's and don'ts to make it easier to skim
it, and integrated my note that a TAP harness will get confused if you
print "ok" or "not ok" at the beginning of a line.
Thad had to be fixed in 335f87871f when
TAP support was introduced.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_expect_code (which was introduced in d3bfdb75) never had any
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was do documentation for the test_external_without_stderr and
test_external functions.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no documentation for the test_set_prereq and
test_have_prereq functions, or the three-arg form of
test_expect_success and test_expect_failure.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's a unique trash directory for each test, not a single directory
as the previous documentation suggested.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface
between testing modules in a test harness. test-lib.sh's output was
already very close to being valid TAP. This change brings it all the
way there. Before:
$ ./t0005-signals.sh
* ok 1: sigchain works
* passed all 1 test(s)
And after:
$ ./t0005-signals.sh
ok 1 - sigchain works
# passed all 1 test(s)
1..1
The advantage of using TAP is that any program that reads the format
(a "test harness") can run the tests. The most popular of these is the
prove(1) utility that comes with Perl. It can run tests in parallel,
display colored output, format the output to console, file, HTML etc.,
and much more. An example:
$ prove ./t0005-signals.sh
./t0005-signals.sh .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.00 sys + 0.01 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.06 CPU)
Result: PASS
prove(1) gives you human readable output without being too
verbose. Running the test suite in parallel with `make test -j15`
produces a flood of text. Running them with `prove -j 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh`
makes it easy to follow what's going on.
All this patch does is re-arrange the output a bit so that it conforms
with the TAP spec, everything that the test suite did before continues
to work. That includes aggregating results in t/test-results/, the
--verbose, --debug and other options for tests, and the test color
output.
TAP harnesses ignore everything that they don't know about, so running
the tests with --verbose works:
$ prove ./t0005-signals.sh :: --verbose --debug
./t0005-signals.sh .. Terminated
./t0005-signals.sh .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.01 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.05 CPU)
Result: PASS
Just supply the -v option to prove itself to get all the verbose
output that it suppresses:
$ prove -v ./t0005-signals.sh :: --verbose --debug
./t0005-signals.sh ..
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/avar/g/git/t/trash directory.t0005-signals/.git/
expecting success:
test-sigchain >actual
case "$?" in
143) true ;; # POSIX w/ SIGTERM=15
3) true ;; # Windows
*) false ;;
esac &&
test_cmp expect actual
Terminated
ok 1 - sigchain works
# passed all 1 test(s)
1..1
ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.01 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.04 CPU)
Result: PASS
As a further example, consider this test script that uses a lot of
test-lib.sh features by Jakub Narebski:
#!/bin/sh
test_description='this is a sample test.
This test is here to see various test outputs.'
. ./test-lib.sh
say 'diagnostic message'
test_expect_success 'true test' 'true'
test_expect_success 'false test' 'false'
test_expect_failure 'true test (todo)' 'true'
test_expect_failure 'false test (todo)' 'false'
test_debug 'echo "debug message"'
test_done
The output of that was previously:
* diagnostic message # yellow
* ok 1: true test
* FAIL 2: false test # bold red
false
* FIXED 3: true test (todo)
* still broken 4: false test (todo) # bold green
* fixed 1 known breakage(s) # green
* still have 1 known breakage(s) # bold red
* failed 1 among remaining 3 test(s) # bold red
But is now:
diagnostic message # yellow
ok 1 - true test
not ok - 2 false test # bold red
# false
ok 3 - true test (todo) # TODO known breakage
not ok 4 - false test (todo) # TODO known breakage # bold green
# fixed 1 known breakage(s) # green
# still have 1 known breakage(s) # bold red
# failed 1 among remaining 3 test(s) # bold red
1..4
All the coloring is preserved when the test is run manually. Under
prove(1) the test performs as expected, even with --debug and
--verbose options:
$ prove ./example.sh :: --debug --verbose
./example.sh .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/4 subtests
(1 TODO test unexpectedly succeeded)
Test Summary Report
-------------------
./example.sh (Wstat: 256 Tests: 4 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 2
TODO passed: 3
Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=1, Tests=4, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.03 CPU)
Result: FAIL
The TAP harness itself doesn't get confused by the color output, they
aren't used by test-lib.sh stdout isn't open to a terminal (test -t 1).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We've had this option since f423ef5 (tests: allow user to specify
trash directory location, 2009-08-09). Make it easier to look up :-)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Only put bin-wrappers in the PATH (not GIT_EXEC_PATH), to emulate the
default installed user environment, and ensure all the programs run
correctly in such an environment. This is now the default, although
it can be overridden with a --with-dashes test option when running
tests.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were added without documentation in 2009-03-16 (6720721).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It does not make much sense to run the (expensive) valgrind tests and
not look at the output.
To prevent output from scrolling out of reach, the parameter --tee is
implied, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When tests are run in parallel and a few tests fail, it does not help
that the output of the terminal is totally confusing, as you rarely know
which test which line came from.
So introduce the option '--tee' which triggers that the output of the
tests will be written to t/test-results/$TEST.out in addition to the
terminal, where $TEST is the basename of the script.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to redirect a given file
descriptor to a specified subprocess in POSIX shell, only redirection
to a file is supported via 'exec > $FILE'.
At least with bash, one might think that 'exec >($COMMAND)' would work
as intended, but it does not.
The common way to work around the lack of proper tools support is to
work with named pipes, alas, one of our most beloved platforms does not
really support named pipes. Besides, we would need a pipe for every
script, as the whole point of this patch is to allow parallel execution.
Therefore, we handle the redirection in the following way: when '--tee'
was passed to the test script, the variable GIT_TEST_TEE_STARTED is set
(to avoid triggering that code path again) and the script is started
_again_, in a subshell, redirected to the command "tee".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds the ability to use valgrind's memcheck tool to
diagnose memory problems in Git while running the test scripts.
It requires valgrind 3.4.0 or newer.
It works by creating symlinks to a valgrind script, which have the same
name as our Git binaries, and then putting that directory in front of
the test script's PATH as well as set GIT_EXEC_PATH to that directory.
Git scripts are symlinked from that directory directly.
That way, Git binaries called by Git scripts are valgrinded, too.
Valgrind can be used by specifying "GIT_TEST_OPTS=--valgrind" in the
make invocation. Any invocation of git that finds any errors under
valgrind will exit with failure code 126. Any valgrind output will go
to the usual stderr channel for tests (i.e., /dev/null, unless -v has
been specified).
If you need to pass options to valgrind -- you might want to run
another tool than memcheck, for example -- you can set the environment
variable GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS.
A few default suppressions are included, since libz seems to trigger
quite a few false positives. We'll assume that libz works and that we
can ignore any errors which are reported there.
Note: it is safe to run the valgrind tests in parallel, as the links in
t/valgrind/bin/ are created using proper locking.
Initial patch and all the hard work by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Often we just need to add a commit with a given (short) name, that will
be tagged with the same name. Now, relatively complicated graphs can be
constructed easily and in a clear fashion:
test_commit A &&
test_commit B &&
git checkout A &&
test_commit C &&
test_merge D B
will construct this graph:
A - B
\ \
C - D
For simplicity, files whose name is the lower case version of the commit
message (to avoid a warning about ambiguous names) will be committed, with
the corresponding commit messages as contents.
If you need to provide a different file/different contents, you can use
the more explicit form
test_commit $MESSAGE $FILENAME $CONTENTS
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add description of GIT_SKIP_TESTS variable, taken almost verbatim
(adjusting for conventions in t/README) from the commit message in
04ece59 (GIT_SKIP_TESTS: allow users to omit tests that are known to break)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --long-tests option to test-lib.sh, which enables tests to
selectively run more exhaustive (longer running, potentially
brute-force) tests. Such exhaustive tests would only be useful if one
works on the specific module that is being tested -- for a general "cd
t/; make" to check whether everything is OK, such exhaustive tests
shouldn't be run by default since the longer it takes to run the
tests, the less often they are actually run.
Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision. Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:
test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
what is to be tested
'
And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests. Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test. The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.
This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:
test_expect_success 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
! this command should fail
'
test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass. So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:
test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
rm -f bar &&
git foo &&
test -f bar
'
This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The Makefile in the test suite directory considers any file
matching t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh as the top-level test script
to be executed. Unfortunately this was not documented, and the
common test library, t6000-lib.sh was named to match that
pattern. This caused t6000-lib.sh to be called from Makefile as
the top-level program, causing it to leave t/sed.script file
behind. Rename it to t6000lib.sh to prevent this, and document
the naming convention a bit more clearly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The documentation of the test harness still refer to old
numbering and also contains an obvious typo.
Also "make test" should be run after making sure we have built
all binaries, since test is designed to test the newly built
ones.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
First digit: "family", e.g. the absolute basics and global stuff (0),
the basic db-side commands (read-tree, write-tree, commit-tree), the
basic working-tree-side commands (checkout-cache, update-cache), the
other basic commands (ls-files), the diff commands, the pull commands,
exporting commands, revision tree commands...
Second digit: the particular command we are testing
Third digit: (optionally) the particular switch or group of switches
we are testing
Freeform part: commandname-details
Described in the README.
mv t1000-checkout-cache.sh t2000-checkout-cache-clash.sh
mv t1001-checkout-cache.sh t2001-checkout-cache-clash.sh
mv t0200-update-cache.sh t2010-update-cache-badpath.sh
mv t0400-ls-files.sh t3000-ls-files-others.sh
mv t0500-ls-files.sh t3010-ls-files-killed.sh
This adds instruction for running tests, and writing new tests.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Updated to the new tidied up output style.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
