[Avocado-devel] TestRunner API

[Vincent Matossian]

Thanks, I'll catch up on the Job API in more detail and chime back in, it
looks very promising

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Vincent

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Cleber Rosa <crosa at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 05/26/2016 03:39 PM, Vincent Matossian wrote:
>
>> [more of an avocado-users than a devel question but this is the only list
>> I
>> could find, sorry if I missed something]
>>
>> Hopefully a quick question: what's the right way to invoke the test runner
>> programmatically rather than through the  "avocado run " CLI?
>>
>>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> I've played with something like
>>
>> import avocado
>> from sleeptest import SleepTest
>>
>> avocado.Test.run(SleepTest())
>>
>>
> You can obviously do something like:
>
>  >>> from sleeptest import SleepTest
>  >>> s = SleepTest()
>  >>> print s
>  Test('0-SleepTest')
>  >>> print s.run_avocado()
>  None
>
> But this is probably not what you want.
>
> but I haven't explored further to find out how to parametrize and get all
>> the goodies we get with the CLI options, is all this feasible?
>>
>>
> TBH, this is something we intend to tackle with the "Job API".  You can
> find some references about it in this very same mailling list.  After you
> catch up with the concepts and ideas there, please let us know if it
> matches your requirements and ideas.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Cleber.
>
> Thanks!
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Cleber Rosa
> [ Sr Software Engineer - Virtualization Team - Red Hat ]
> [ Avocado Test Framework - avocado-framework.github.io ]
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