[libvirt] [PATCH 05/16] docs: hacking: demonstrate the powers of VIR_TEST_RANGE

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Fri Oct 18 22:36:39 UTC 2019


Mention a more complex example.

Invoke the test without 'make' since the mentioned example
does not seem to be working anymore.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
---
 docs/hacking.html.in | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/hacking.html.in b/docs/hacking.html.in
index d8f748626e..1e16813868 100644
--- a/docs/hacking.html.in
+++ b/docs/hacking.html.in
@@ -178,12 +178,13 @@
 
         <p>
           When debugging failures during development, it is possible
-          to focus in on just the failing subtests by using TESTS and
-          VIR_TEST_RANGE:
+          to focus in on just the failing subtests by using
+          VIR_TEST_RANGE. I.e. to run all tests from 3 to 20 with the
+          exception of tests 6 and 16, use:
         </p>
 
 <pre>
-  make check VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1 VIR_TEST_RANGE=3-5 TESTS=qemuxml2argvtest
+  VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1 VIR_TEST_RANGE=3-5,7-20,^16 ./run tests/qemuxml2argvtest
 </pre>
 
         <p>
-- 
2.21.0




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