[Avocado-devel] New questions

[Marcos E. Matsunaga]

Hi Folks,

I have some questions about how avocado works.

1. If I run avocado and give it a directory that has all tests. Is there 
a way to specify the order of execution? I mean, if I name the files 
001-xxx.py, 010-aa.py, will it execute 001-xxx.py before 010-aa.py or it 
doesn't follow an alphabetical order?

2. Lets take into consideration that same directory. Some of the scripts 
will have multiplex configuration files. Does avocado automatically look 
at some specific directory for those multiplex configuration files? I've 
tried to add them to the data, cfg and even the <script>.data 
directories, but it seems that it doesn't look for them automatically, 
only when I specify the option --multiplex, but then, the file will be 
used by all scripts and I was only able to specify a single multiplex file.

3. I tried to find if it was possible to start multiple test processes 
in parallel, but it seems that avocado doesn't have anything like that. 
Lets say I have 4 guests and I want to execute performance tests while 
loading the 4 guests and I want to start tests on all 4 guests at the 
same time. It doesn't have a feature that will do that, right?

Thanks for your time and help.


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Regards,

Marcos Eduardo Matsunaga

Oracle USA
Linux Engineering

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