[Libguestfs] [PATCH v5 0/7] tests: Introduce test harness for running tests.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:09:14PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> A possible idea just came into my mind is installing the current tests, 
> like:
>   installedtestsdir = $(libdir)/guestfs/tests/somesubdir
>   installedtests_SCRIPTS = $(TESTS)
> at the bottom of each Makefile.am providing tests, maybe automating that 
> using a small make function; this could make sure all the tests in each 
> directory get installed properly, without moving the logic away from the 
> build system.
> Regarding the "how to find tests": maybe it is a waste, but an idea 
> could be add, next to test.sh, a test.sh.testinfo (or whatever), in 
> plain text format, with entries like:
>   [Test]
>   Need=appliance,fake-guests
>   CompatSkip=SKIP_OLD_NAME
> (we have a .ini parser in virt-builder, so that comes for free.)
> For example, the runner could get a parameter to know whether the 
> appliance has been enabled, and not run tests with "appliance" in Need 
> key. The bigger drawback is that even the tests with nothing to specify 
> in such .testinfo file would need one, even if just with an empty [Test] 
> section.

I was trying to avoid defining another source for generated files, on
the general principle that everything that is generated come from one
place (in the directory generator/).

Rich.

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