[libvirt] [PATCH 19/20] qemuagenttest: Test arbitrary qemu commands and timeouting of commands

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:27:49AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 07:05 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > Test arbitrary qemu commands and timeouting of the guest agent
> 
> s/timeouting/timeouts/ (also in the subject)
> 
> > synchronisation.
> > ---
> >  tests/qemuagenttest.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 101 insertions(+)
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if it's worth adding some sort of escape hatch, maybe if
> 'VIR_TEST_FAST' is defined to non-empty in the environment, then we skip
> this test; developers that don't like the long wait can then export that
> variable as 1, whereas the spec file can ensure it is 0.  That could be
> a followup patch, though, and it might be worth getting more feedback
> than just mine on whether the new long-running test needs tweaking to
> allow developers to avoid waiting, while still avoiding bit-rotting of
> the test at release time.

IMHO we don't want any of the tests doing multi-second timeouts by
default. IOW, rather than VIR_TEST_FAST, we should have a
VIR_TEST_ALLOW_SLEEP=1, and ensure that libvirt.spec.in sets that
when doing 'make check' and also make sure that autobuild.sh sets
it. So all automated builds fully exercise the tests, but day to
day usage isn't delayed

> ACK.

Daniel
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