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| author | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2024-07-29 15:44:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2024-07-30 11:44:18 +0100 |
| commit | c8d6e0422341f8ad8706a446b83a824fdfeacc11 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d97edb82246a1bc4c691e2cadfdb4312bf9419a | |
| parent | ec5a4c7ffee2de5d9784bc02e44796e3f32f4f00 (diff) | |
docs/devel: update the testing introduction
Move the mention of "check-help" up to the intro text and also mention
the meson test integration.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240729144414.830369-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/testing.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 23d3f44f52..b984c5dd26 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -3,13 +3,28 @@ Testing in QEMU =============== -This document describes the testing infrastructure in QEMU. +QEMU's testing infrastructure is fairly complex as it covers +everything from unit testing and exercising specific sub-systems all +the way to full blown acceptance tests. To get an overview of the +tests you can run ``make check-help`` from either the source or build +tree. + +Most (but not all) tests are also integrated into the meson build +system so can be run directly from the build tree, for example: + +.. code:: + + [./pyvenv/bin/]meson test --suite qemu:softfloat + +will run just the softfloat tests. + +The rest of this document will cover the details for specific test +groups. Testing with "make check" ------------------------- -The "make check" testing family includes most of the C based tests in QEMU. For -a quick help, run ``make check-help`` from the source tree. +The "make check" testing family includes most of the C based tests in QEMU. The usual way to run these tests is: |