[Avocado-devel] Processing "info_xxx" field for avocado-vt tests.

[Lukáš Doktor]

Dne 5.5.2016 v 17:16 Andrei Stepanov napsal(a):
> Hello.
> 
> I want to propose to add to avocado-vt "info_xxx" field.
> As you know, avocado-vt tests use cartesian configs.
> Test is a dictionary with combination of entries from different variants.
> Test name is something like: Selection1.Selection2.Selection3....
> 
> variants:
>  -selection1
>            info = What is about selection1
>  -selection2
> 
> variants:
>  - selection3
>            info = What is about selection3
> 
> Resulted tests are:
> * selection1.selection3
> * selection2.selection3
> 
> 
> I would like to have option for avocado to see the provided info for nodes.
> 
> Example:
> 
> ./avocado list --vt-type xxx filter --show-help
> 
> As a result I want to get something like:
> 
> Test name: selection1.selection3
> Help for node selection1:
> 
>       What is about selection1
> 
> Help for node selection3:
> 
>       What is about selection3
> 
> 
> 
> This would be a perfect place to write what a test is about.
> What do you think?
> 
> 
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Well although I don't really need this feature, I see some benefit in
it. We already have `--dry-run`, which simply lists avocado (not
avocado-vt) params. How about adding `--help-run`, which would
instantiate the class and run `help` method instead of the method?

For avocado tests that could be listing the class' `docstring`, for
avocado-vt it could be inspecting and listing the `run` method's
`docstring`.

(for external-runner, you'd get description of external-runner + the
current external-runner and so on...)

I see a benefit in something like this, but I don't see it as a big
priority right now (which means you'd have to implement it yourself).
Anyway @core team what do you think?

Kind regards,
Lukáš

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