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| author | Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> | 2019-03-12 13:18:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> | 2019-05-02 21:33:26 -0300 |
| commit | b910545fbf3f55f22545c202c1aee62598edb838 (patch) | |
| tree | 873ad77ed8cdedbc28c52ddb9bac5ce192950761 /docs/devel/testing.rst | |
| parent | b194713f94b286fd1f2bccace45cb5b25316e232 (diff) | |
tests/acceptance: look for target architecture in test tags first
A test can, optionally, be tagged for one or many architectures. If a
test has been tagged for a single architecture, there's a high chance
that the test won't run on other architectures. This changes the
default order of choosing a default target architecture to use based
on the 'arch' tag value first.
The precedence order is for choosing a QEMU binary to use for a test
is now:
* qemu_bin parameter
* arch parameter
* arch tag value (for example, x86_64 if ":avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
is used)
This means that if one runs:
$ avocado run -p qemu_bin=/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 test.py
No arch parameter or tag will influence the selection of the QEMU
target binary. If one runs:
$ avocado run -p arch=ppc64 test.py
The target binary selection mechanism will attempt to find a binary
such as "ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64". And finally, if one runs
a test that is tagged (in its docstring) with "arch:aarch64":
$ avocado run aarch64.py
The target binary selection mechanism will attempt to find a binary
such as "aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64".
At this time, no provision is made to cancel the execution of tests if
the arch parameter given (manually) does not match the test "arch"
tag, but it may be a useful default behavior to be added in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190312171824.5134-7-crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/devel/testing.rst')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 83bf9f09ac..da2d0fc964 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -740,7 +740,9 @@ A test may, for instance, use the same value when selecting the architecture of a kernel or disk image to boot a VM with. The ``arch`` attribute will be set to the test parameter of the same -name, and if one is not given explicitly, it will be set to ``None``. +name. If one is not given explicitly, it will either be set to +``None``, or, if the test is tagged with one (and only one) +``:avocado: tags=arch:VALUE`` tag, it will be set to ``VALUE``. qemu_bin ~~~~~~~~ |