[libvirt] [PATCH 06/17] genericxml2xml: add several graphics tests

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/06/2016 09:21 AM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 08:43:25AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 05/05/2016 12:20 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-listen-attr-only.xml      | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  ...generic-graphics-vnc-listen-element-minimal.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  ...ic-graphics-vnc-listen-element-with-address.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-manual-port.xml           | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-minimal.xml               | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-socket-listen.xml         | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-socket.xml                | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-listen-attr-only.xml      | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  ...generic-graphics-vnc-listen-element-minimal.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  ...ic-graphics-vnc-listen-element-with-address.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-manual-port.xml           | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-minimal.xml               | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-socket-listen.xml         | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../generic-graphics-vnc-socket.xml                | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  tests/genericxml2xmltest.c                         |  7 +++++
>>
>> The generic XML parser doesn't have any restriction on duplicate <graphics
>> type='vnc'/>, so these could be combined to possibly one XML file.
>>
>> I know there really isn't much precedent for that at the moment, but given the
>> massive size of our test suite and the fact that much of the time is spent on
>> redundant parsing and XML formatting, personally I'd like to see things move
>> in that direction.
> 
> The idea itself isn't bad, but I think that it's better to have vnc and spice in
> separate XML to make it clear which test failed so you know that it's vnc
> graphics or spice graphics directly only from the test name.
> 

Yes, agreed with splitting on VNC vs spice at least.

> I've tried this command on my desktop:
> 
>     "time ./run tests/.libs/qemuxml2xmltest"
> 
> and considering that there are 837 test cases the output of time is:
> 
>     real    0m0.821s
>     user    0m0.746s
>     sys     0m0.034s
> 
> So we don't spent that much time while parsing and formatting XML.
> 

Fair enough, but truly the big time sink is domainschematest...

- Cole