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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2024-11-12 12:53:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2024-11-27 07:43:14 +0100 |
| commit | 4a722d2e8e7b01c4c07a739b8305c3704644292c (patch) | |
| tree | fd455d9778fc87f9dd33bc5c76bf355eb8d6fe3a /docs | |
| parent | 7872e5fdf38ac0d8d0083aabb98d67da1f530ef4 (diff) | |
docs/devel/testing/functional: Clarify that we have to use the build folder
Make it clear that the commands have to be run from the folder with the
build, and use the python3 from our pyvenv to make sure that the
pycotap module is available.
Message-ID: <20241112115302.470527-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/testing/functional.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst b/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst index b8ad7b0bf7..ae238ed3fc 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst @@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ To run a single test file without the meson test runner, you can also execute the file directly by specifying two environment variables first, the PYTHONPATH that has to include the python folder and the tests/functional folder of the source tree, and QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY that has to point -to the QEMU binary that should be used for the test, for example:: +to the QEMU binary that should be used for the test. The current working +directory should be your build folder. For example:: $ export PYTHONPATH=../python:../tests/functional $ export QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY=$PWD/qemu-system-x86_64 - $ python3 ../tests/functional/test_file.py + $ pyvenv/bin/python3 ../tests/functional/test_file.py The test framework will automatically purge any scratch files created during the tests. If needing to debug a failed test, it is possible to keep these |