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1 | Core GIT Tests |
2 | ============== | |
3 | ||
4 | This directory holds many test scripts for core GIT tools. The | |
5 | first part of this short document describes how to run the tests | |
6 | and read their output. | |
7 | ||
8 | When fixing the tools or adding enhancements, you are strongly | |
9 | encouraged to add tests in this directory to cover what you are | |
10 | trying to fix or enhance. The later part of this short document | |
11 | describes how your test scripts should be organized. | |
12 | ||
13 | ||
14 | Running Tests | |
15 | ------------- | |
16 | ||
17 | The easiest way to run tests is to say "make". This runs all | |
18 | the tests. | |
19 | ||
20 | *** t0000-basic.sh *** | |
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21 | ok 1 - .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo. |
22 | ok 2 - .git/objects should have 3 subdirectories. | |
23 | ok 3 - success is reported like this | |
986aa7f1 | 24 | ... |
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25 | ok 43 - very long name in the index handled sanely |
26 | # fixed 1 known breakage(s) | |
27 | # still have 1 known breakage(s) | |
28 | # passed all remaining 42 test(s) | |
29 | 1..43 | |
30 | *** t0001-init.sh *** | |
31 | ok 1 - plain | |
32 | ok 2 - plain with GIT_WORK_TREE | |
33 | ok 3 - plain bare | |
34 | ||
35 | Since the tests all output TAP (see http://testanything.org) they can | |
85b0b34e | 36 | be run with any TAP harness. Here's an example of parallel testing |
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37 | powered by a recent version of prove(1): |
38 | ||
39 | $ prove --timer --jobs 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh | |
40 | [19:17:33] ./t0005-signals.sh ................................... ok 36 ms | |
41 | [19:17:33] ./t0022-crlf-rename.sh ............................... ok 69 ms | |
42 | [19:17:33] ./t0024-crlf-archive.sh .............................. ok 154 ms | |
43 | [19:17:33] ./t0004-unwritable.sh ................................ ok 289 ms | |
44 | [19:17:33] ./t0002-gitfile.sh ................................... ok 480 ms | |
45 | ===( 102;0 25/? 6/? 5/? 16/? 1/? 4/? 2/? 1/? 3/? 1... )=== | |
46 | ||
47 | prove and other harnesses come with a lot of useful options. The | |
48 | --state option in particular is very useful: | |
49 | ||
50 | # Repeat until no more failures | |
51 | $ prove -j 15 --state=failed,save ./t[0-9]*.sh | |
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53 | You can give DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove on the make command (or define it |
54 | in config.mak) to cause "make test" to run tests under prove. | |
55 | GIT_PROVE_OPTS can be used to pass additional options, e.g. | |
56 | ||
57 | $ make DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS='--timer --jobs 16' test | |
58 | ||
5099b99d | 59 | You can also run each test individually from command line, like this: |
986aa7f1 | 60 | |
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61 | $ sh ./t3010-ls-files-killed-modified.sh |
62 | ok 1 - git update-index --add to add various paths. | |
63 | ok 2 - git ls-files -k to show killed files. | |
64 | ok 3 - validate git ls-files -k output. | |
65 | ok 4 - git ls-files -m to show modified files. | |
66 | ok 5 - validate git ls-files -m output. | |
67 | # passed all 5 test(s) | |
68 | 1..5 | |
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69 | |
70 | You can pass --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate | |
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71 | (or -i) command line argument to the test, or by setting GIT_TEST_OPTS |
72 | appropriately before running "make". | |
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73 | |
74 | --verbose:: | |
75 | This makes the test more verbose. Specifically, the | |
76 | command being run and their output if any are also | |
77 | output. | |
78 | ||
79 | --debug:: | |
80 | This may help the person who is developing a new test. | |
81 | It causes the command defined with test_debug to run. | |
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82 | The "trash" directory (used to store all temporary data |
83 | during testing) is not deleted even if there are no | |
84 | failed tests so that you can inspect its contents after | |
85 | the test finished. | |
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86 | |
87 | --immediate:: | |
88 | This causes the test to immediately exit upon the first | |
89 | failed test. | |
90 | ||
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91 | --long-tests:: |
92 | This causes additional long-running tests to be run (where | |
93 | available), for more exhaustive testing. | |
94 | ||
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95 | --valgrind:: |
96 | Execute all Git binaries with valgrind and exit with status | |
97 | 126 on errors (just like regular tests, this will only stop | |
98 | the test script when running under -i). Valgrind errors | |
99 | go to stderr, so you might want to pass the -v option, too. | |
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101 | Since it makes no sense to run the tests with --valgrind and |
102 | not see any output, this option implies --verbose. For | |
103 | convenience, it also implies --tee. | |
104 | ||
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105 | Note that valgrind is run with the option --leak-check=no, |
106 | as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not | |
107 | interesting. In order to run a single command under the same | |
108 | conditions manually, you should set GIT_VALGRIND to point to | |
109 | the 't/valgrind/' directory and use the commands under | |
110 | 't/valgrind/bin/'. | |
111 | ||
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112 | --tee:: |
113 | In addition to printing the test output to the terminal, | |
114 | write it to files named 't/test-results/$TEST_NAME.out'. | |
115 | As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to | |
116 | run the tests with this option in parallel. | |
117 | ||
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118 | --with-dashes:: |
119 | By default tests are run without dashed forms of | |
120 | commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses | |
121 | wrappers from ../bin-wrappers). Use this option to include | |
122 | the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all | |
123 | the dashed forms of commands. This option is currently | |
124 | implied by other options like --valgrind and | |
125 | GIT_TEST_INSTALLED. | |
126 | ||
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127 | --root=<directory>:: |
128 | Create "trash" directories used to store all temporary data during | |
129 | testing under <directory>, instead of the t/ directory. | |
130 | Using this option with a RAM-based filesystem (such as tmpfs) | |
131 | can massively speed up the test suite. | |
132 | ||
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133 | You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to |
134 | the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation. | |
135 | You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various | |
136 | test-* support programs, templates, and perl libraries are used. | |
137 | If your installed git is incomplete, it will silently test parts of | |
138 | your built version instead. | |
139 | ||
140 | When using GIT_TEST_INSTALLED, you can also set GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH to | |
141 | override the location of the dashed-form subcommands (what | |
142 | GIT_EXEC_PATH would be used for during normal operation). | |
143 | GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH defaults to `$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path`. | |
144 | ||
145 | ||
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146 | Skipping Tests |
147 | -------------- | |
148 | ||
149 | In some environments, certain tests have no way of succeeding | |
150 | due to platform limitation, such as lack of 'unzip' program, or | |
151 | filesystem that do not allow arbitrary sequence of non-NUL bytes | |
152 | as pathnames. | |
153 | ||
154 | You should be able to say something like | |
155 | ||
156 | $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9200.8 sh ./t9200-git-cvsexport-commit.sh | |
157 | ||
158 | and even: | |
159 | ||
160 | $ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t[0-4]??? t91?? t9200.8' make | |
161 | ||
162 | to omit such tests. The value of the environment variable is a | |
163 | SP separated list of patterns that tells which tests to skip, | |
164 | and either can match the "t[0-9]{4}" part to skip the whole | |
165 | test, or t[0-9]{4} followed by ".$number" to say which | |
166 | particular test to skip. | |
167 | ||
168 | Note that some tests in the existing test suite rely on previous | |
169 | test item, so you cannot arbitrarily disable one and expect the | |
170 | remainder of test to check what the test originally was intended | |
171 | to check. | |
172 | ||
173 | ||
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174 | Naming Tests |
175 | ------------ | |
176 | ||
177 | The test files are named as: | |
178 | ||
179 | tNNNN-commandname-details.sh | |
180 | ||
181 | where N is a decimal digit. | |
182 | ||
183 | First digit tells the family: | |
184 | ||
185 | 0 - the absolute basics and global stuff | |
186 | 1 - the basic commands concerning database | |
187 | 2 - the basic commands concerning the working tree | |
188 | 3 - the other basic commands (e.g. ls-files) | |
189 | 4 - the diff commands | |
190 | 5 - the pull and exporting commands | |
191 | 6 - the revision tree commands (even e.g. merge-base) | |
8f4a9b62 | 192 | 7 - the porcelainish commands concerning the working tree |
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193 | 8 - the porcelainish commands concerning forensics |
194 | 9 - the git tools | |
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195 | |
196 | Second digit tells the particular command we are testing. | |
197 | ||
198 | Third digit (optionally) tells the particular switch or group of switches | |
199 | we are testing. | |
200 | ||
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201 | If you create files under t/ directory (i.e. here) that is not |
202 | the top-level test script, never name the file to match the above | |
203 | pattern. The Makefile here considers all such files as the | |
63d32945 | 204 | top-level test script and tries to run all of them. Care is |
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205 | especially needed if you are creating a common test library |
206 | file, similar to test-lib.sh, because such a library file may | |
207 | not be suitable for standalone execution. | |
208 | ||
f50c9f76 | 209 | |
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210 | Writing Tests |
211 | ------------- | |
212 | ||
213 | The test script is written as a shell script. It should start | |
214 | with the standard "#!/bin/sh" with copyright notices, and an | |
215 | assignment to variable 'test_description', like this: | |
216 | ||
217 | #!/bin/sh | |
218 | # | |
219 | # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano | |
220 | # | |
221 | ||
14cd1ff3 | 222 | test_description='xxx test (option --frotz) |
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223 | |
224 | This test registers the following structure in the cache | |
225 | and tries to run git-ls-files with option --frotz.' | |
226 | ||
f50c9f76 | 227 | |
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228 | Source 'test-lib.sh' |
229 | -------------------- | |
230 | ||
231 | After assigning test_description, the test script should source | |
232 | test-lib.sh like this: | |
233 | ||
234 | . ./test-lib.sh | |
235 | ||
236 | This test harness library does the following things: | |
237 | ||
238 | - If the script is invoked with command line argument --help | |
239 | (or -h), it shows the test_description and exits. | |
240 | ||
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241 | - Creates an empty test directory with an empty .git/objects database |
242 | and chdir(2) into it. This directory is 't/trash | |
243 | directory.$test_name_without_dotsh', with t/ subject to change by | |
244 | the --root option documented above. | |
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245 | |
246 | - Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to | |
247 | use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave | |
248 | consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), | |
249 | --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. | |
250 | ||
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251 | Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind |
252 | ------------------------------------- | |
253 | ||
6fd45295 | 254 | Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do |
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255 | when writing tests. |
256 | ||
257 | Do: | |
258 | ||
6fd45295 | 259 | - Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions. |
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260 | |
261 | Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code | |
6fd45295 | 262 | should be inside a test assertion. |
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263 | |
264 | - Chain your test assertions | |
265 | ||
266 | Write test code like this: | |
267 | ||
268 | git merge foo && | |
269 | git push bar && | |
270 | test ... | |
271 | ||
272 | Instead of: | |
273 | ||
274 | git merge hla | |
275 | git push gh | |
276 | test ... | |
277 | ||
278 | That way all of the commands in your tests will succeed or fail. If | |
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279 | you must ignore the return value of something, consider using a |
280 | helper function (e.g. use sane_unset instead of unset, in order | |
281 | to avoid unportable return value for unsetting a variable that was | |
282 | already unset), or prepending the command with test_might_fail or | |
283 | test_must_fail. | |
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285 | - Check the test coverage for your tests. See the "Test coverage" |
286 | below. | |
287 | ||
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288 | Don't blindly follow test coverage metrics; if a new function you added |
289 | doesn't have any coverage, then you're probably doing something wrong, | |
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290 | but having 100% coverage doesn't necessarily mean that you tested |
291 | everything. | |
292 | ||
293 | Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better | |
294 | than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics. | |
295 | ||
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296 | - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated, |
297 | construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD, | |
298 | $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on | |
299 | Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names. | |
300 | For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9. | |
301 | ||
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302 | Don't: |
303 | ||
304 | - exit() within a <script> part. | |
305 | ||
306 | The harness will catch this as a programming error of the test. | |
307 | Use test_done instead if you need to stop the tests early (see | |
308 | "Skipping tests" below). | |
309 | ||
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310 | - use '! git cmd' when you want to make sure the git command exits |
311 | with failure in a controlled way by calling "die()". Instead, | |
312 | use 'test_must_fail git cmd'. This will signal a failure if git | |
313 | dies in an unexpected way (e.g. segfault). | |
314 | ||
315 | - use perl without spelling it as "$PERL_PATH". This is to help our | |
316 | friends on Windows where the platform Perl often adds CR before | |
317 | the end of line, and they bundle Git with a version of Perl that | |
318 | does not do so, whose path is specified with $PERL_PATH. | |
319 | ||
320 | - use sh without spelling it as "$SHELL_PATH", when the script can | |
321 | be misinterpreted by broken platform shell (e.g. Solaris). | |
322 | ||
323 | - chdir around in tests. It is not sufficient to chdir to | |
324 | somewhere and then chdir back to the original location later in | |
325 | the test, as any intermediate step can fail and abort the test, | |
326 | causing the next test to start in an unexpected directory. Do so | |
327 | inside a subshell if necessary. | |
328 | ||
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329 | - Break the TAP output |
330 | ||
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331 | The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP |
332 | harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step | |
333 | on their toes in these areas: | |
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334 | |
335 | - Don't print lines like "$x..$y" where $x and $y are integers. | |
336 | ||
337 | - Don't print lines that begin with "ok" or "not ok". | |
338 | ||
6fd45295 | 339 | TAP harnesses expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not |
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340 | ok" to signal a test passed or failed (and our harness already |
341 | produces such lines), so your script shouldn't emit such lines to | |
342 | their output. | |
343 | ||
344 | You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar | |
345 | (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) | |
346 | but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), | |
347 | it'll complain if anything is amiss. | |
348 | ||
349 | Keep in mind: | |
350 | ||
6fd45295 | 351 | - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error |
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352 | streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or |
353 | "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they | |
354 | are shown to help debugging the tests. | |
355 | ||
356 | ||
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357 | Skipping tests |
358 | -------------- | |
359 | ||
681186ae | 360 | If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form |
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361 | of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section |
362 | below), e.g.: | |
363 | ||
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364 | test_expect_success PERL 'I need Perl' ' |
365 | "$PERL_PATH" -e "hlagh() if unf_unf()" | |
366 | ' | |
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367 | |
368 | The advantage of skipping tests like this is that platforms that don't | |
369 | have the PERL and other optional dependencies get an indication of how | |
370 | many tests they're missing. | |
371 | ||
372 | If the test code is too hairy for that (i.e. does a lot of setup work | |
373 | outside test assertions) you can also skip all remaining tests by | |
374 | setting skip_all and immediately call test_done: | |
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375 | |
376 | if ! test_have_prereq PERL | |
377 | then | |
378 | skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' | |
379 | test_done | |
380 | fi | |
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382 | The string you give to skip_all will be used as an explanation for why |
383 | the test was skipped. | |
384 | ||
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385 | End with test_done |
386 | ------------------ | |
387 | ||
388 | Your script will be a sequence of tests, using helper functions | |
389 | from the test harness library. At the end of the script, call | |
390 | 'test_done'. | |
391 | ||
392 | ||
393 | Test harness library | |
394 | -------------------- | |
395 | ||
396 | There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness | |
397 | library for your script to use. | |
398 | ||
9a897893 | 399 | - test_expect_success [<prereq>] <message> <script> |
986aa7f1 | 400 | |
72942a61 | 401 | Usually takes two strings as parameters, and evaluates the |
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402 | <script>. If it yields success, test is considered |
403 | successful. <message> should state what it is testing. | |
404 | ||
405 | Example: | |
406 | ||
407 | test_expect_success \ | |
408 | 'git-write-tree should be able to write an empty tree.' \ | |
409 | 'tree=$(git-write-tree)' | |
410 | ||
9a897893 | 411 | If you supply three parameters the first will be taken to be a |
72942a61 | 412 | prerequisite; see the test_set_prereq and test_have_prereq |
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413 | documentation below: |
414 | ||
415 | test_expect_success TTY 'git --paginate rev-list uses a pager' \ | |
416 | ' ... ' | |
417 | ||
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418 | You can also supply a comma-separated list of prerequisites, in the |
419 | rare case where your test depends on more than one: | |
420 | ||
421 | test_expect_success PERL,PYTHON 'yo dawg' \ | |
422 | ' test $(perl -E 'print eval "1 +" . qx[python -c "print 2"]') == "4" ' | |
423 | ||
9a897893 | 424 | - test_expect_failure [<prereq>] <message> <script> |
986aa7f1 | 425 | |
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426 | This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used |
427 | to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike | |
428 | the usual test_expect_success tests, which say "ok" on | |
429 | success and "FAIL" on failure, this will say "FIXED" on | |
430 | success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these | |
431 | tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop. | |
986aa7f1 | 432 | |
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433 | Like test_expect_success this function can optionally use a three |
434 | argument invocation with a prerequisite as the first argument. | |
435 | ||
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436 | - test_debug <script> |
437 | ||
438 | This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only | |
439 | when the test script is started with --debug command line | |
440 | argument. This is primarily meant for use during the | |
441 | development of a new test script. | |
442 | ||
443 | - test_done | |
444 | ||
445 | Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose | |
446 | is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and | |
447 | exit with an appropriate error code. | |
448 | ||
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449 | - test_tick |
450 | ||
451 | Make commit and tag names consistent by setting the author and | |
63d32945 | 452 | committer times to defined state. Subsequent calls will |
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453 | advance the times by a fixed amount. |
454 | ||
455 | - test_commit <message> [<filename> [<contents>]] | |
456 | ||
457 | Creates a commit with the given message, committing the given | |
458 | file with the given contents (default for both is to reuse the | |
459 | message string), and adds a tag (again reusing the message | |
460 | string as name). Calls test_tick to make the SHA-1s | |
461 | reproducible. | |
462 | ||
463 | - test_merge <message> <commit-or-tag> | |
464 | ||
465 | Merges the given rev using the given message. Like test_commit, | |
466 | creates a tag and calls test_tick before committing. | |
986aa7f1 | 467 | |
72942a61 | 468 | - test_set_prereq <prereq> |
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469 | |
470 | Set a test prerequisite to be used later with test_have_prereq. The | |
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471 | test-lib will set some prerequisites for you, see the |
472 | "Prerequisites" section below for a full list of these. | |
473 | ||
474 | Others you can set yourself and use later with either | |
475 | test_have_prereq directly, or the three argument invocation of | |
476 | test_expect_success and test_expect_failure. | |
9a897893 | 477 | |
72942a61 | 478 | - test_have_prereq <prereq> |
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479 | |
480 | Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with | |
481 | test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip | |
482 | all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: | |
483 | ||
484 | if ! test_have_prereq PERL | |
485 | then | |
486 | skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' | |
487 | test_done | |
488 | fi | |
489 | ||
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490 | - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> |
491 | ||
492 | Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This | |
493 | was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their | |
494 | work in an external test script. | |
495 | ||
496 | test_external \ | |
497 | 'GitwebCache::*FileCache*' \ | |
498 | "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl | |
499 | ||
500 | If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the | |
501 | test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first | |
502 | test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example. | |
503 | ||
504 | # The external test will outputs its own plan | |
505 | test_external_has_tap=1 | |
506 | ||
507 | - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script> | |
508 | ||
509 | Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr, | |
510 | instead of checking the exit code. | |
511 | ||
512 | test_external_without_stderr \ | |
513 | 'Perl API' \ | |
514 | "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl | |
515 | ||
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516 | - test_expect_code <exit-code> <command> |
517 | ||
518 | Run a command and ensure that it exits with the given exit code. | |
519 | For example: | |
520 | ||
521 | test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' ' | |
522 | test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master | |
523 | ' | |
524 | ||
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525 | - test_must_fail <git-command> |
526 | ||
527 | Run a git command and ensure it fails in a controlled way. Use | |
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528 | this instead of "! <git-command>". When git-command dies due to a |
529 | segfault, test_must_fail diagnoses it as an error; "! <git-command>" | |
530 | treats it as just another expected failure, which would let such a | |
531 | bug go unnoticed. | |
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532 | |
533 | - test_might_fail <git-command> | |
534 | ||
535 | Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerate success, too. Use this | |
536 | instead of "<git-command> || :" to catch failures due to segv. | |
537 | ||
538 | - test_cmp <expected> <actual> | |
539 | ||
540 | Check whether the content of the <actual> file matches the | |
541 | <expected> file. This behaves like "cmp" but produces more | |
542 | helpful output when the test is run with "-v" option. | |
543 | ||
fb3340a6 JN |
544 | - test_line_count (= | -lt | -ge | ...) <length> <file> |
545 | ||
546 | Check whether a file has the length it is expected to. | |
547 | ||
72942a61 ML |
548 | - test_path_is_file <path> [<diagnosis>] |
549 | test_path_is_dir <path> [<diagnosis>] | |
2caf20c5 MM |
550 | test_path_is_missing <path> [<diagnosis>] |
551 | ||
72942a61 ML |
552 | Check if the named path is a file, if the named path is a |
553 | directory, or if the named path does not exist, respectively, | |
554 | and fail otherwise, showing the <diagnosis> text. | |
2caf20c5 | 555 | |
c9667456 JN |
556 | - test_when_finished <script> |
557 | ||
558 | Prepend <script> to a list of commands to run to clean up | |
559 | at the end of the current test. If some clean-up command | |
560 | fails, the test will not pass. | |
561 | ||
562 | Example: | |
563 | ||
564 | test_expect_success 'branch pointing to non-commit' ' | |
565 | git rev-parse HEAD^{tree} >.git/refs/heads/invalid && | |
566 | test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/invalid" && | |
567 | ... | |
568 | ' | |
569 | ||
c4d2539a JL |
570 | - test_pause |
571 | ||
572 | This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be | |
573 | removed before submitting. It halts the execution of the test and | |
574 | spawns a shell in the trash directory. Exit the shell to continue | |
575 | the test. Example: | |
576 | ||
577 | test_expect_success 'test' ' | |
578 | git do-something >actual && | |
579 | test_pause && | |
580 | test_cmp expected actual | |
581 | ' | |
582 | ||
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583 | Prerequisites |
584 | ------------- | |
585 | ||
586 | These are the prerequisites that the test library predefines with | |
587 | test_have_prereq. | |
588 | ||
589 | See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness | |
590 | library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to | |
591 | use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. | |
592 | ||
593 | - PERL & PYTHON | |
594 | ||
595 | Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or | |
596 | NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that need Perl or Python in | |
597 | these. | |
598 | ||
599 | - POSIXPERM | |
600 | ||
601 | The filesystem supports POSIX style permission bits. | |
602 | ||
603 | - BSLASHPSPEC | |
604 | ||
605 | Backslashes in pathspec are not directory separators. This is not | |
606 | set on Windows. See 6fd1106a for details. | |
607 | ||
608 | - EXECKEEPSPID | |
609 | ||
610 | The process retains the same pid across exec(2). See fb9a2bea for | |
611 | details. | |
612 | ||
613 | - SYMLINKS | |
614 | ||
615 | The filesystem we're on supports symbolic links. E.g. a FAT | |
616 | filesystem doesn't support these. See 704a3143 for details. | |
2fac6a4b | 617 | |
c91cfd19 ÆAB |
618 | - SANITY |
619 | ||
620 | Test is not run by root user, and an attempt to write to an | |
621 | unwritable file is expected to fail correctly. | |
2fac6a4b | 622 | |
8f852ce6 MK |
623 | - LIBPCRE |
624 | ||
625 | Git was compiled with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease. Wrap any tests | |
626 | that use git-grep --perl-regexp or git-grep -P in these. | |
627 | ||
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628 | - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS |
629 | ||
630 | Test is run on a case insensitive file system. | |
631 | ||
5b0b5dd4 MG |
632 | - UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC |
633 | ||
634 | Test is run on a filesystem which converts decomposed utf-8 (nfd) | |
635 | to precomposed utf-8 (nfc). | |
636 | ||
986aa7f1 JH |
637 | Tips for Writing Tests |
638 | ---------------------- | |
639 | ||
640 | As with any programming projects, existing programs are the best | |
641 | source of the information. However, do _not_ emulate | |
642 | t0000-basic.sh when writing your tests. The test is special in | |
643 | that it tries to validate the very core of GIT. For example, it | |
644 | knows that there will be 256 subdirectories under .git/objects/, | |
645 | and it knows that the object ID of an empty tree is a certain | |
646 | 40-byte string. This is deliberately done so in t0000-basic.sh | |
647 | because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is | |
648 | to serve as a basis for people who are changing the GIT internal | |
649 | drastically. For these people, after making certain changes, | |
650 | not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And | |
651 | such drastic changes to the core GIT that even changes these | |
652 | otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by | |
653 | an update to t0000-basic.sh. | |
654 | ||
655 | However, other tests that simply rely on basic parts of the core | |
656 | GIT working properly should not have that level of intimate | |
657 | knowledge of the core GIT internals. If all the test scripts | |
658 | hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats | |
659 | the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of | |
660 | validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing | |
661 | updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_ | |
662 | do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh. | |
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664 | Test coverage |
665 | ------------- | |
666 | ||
667 | You can use the coverage tests to find code paths that are not being | |
668 | used or properly exercised yet. | |
669 | ||
670 | To do that, run the coverage target at the top-level (not in the t/ | |
671 | directory): | |
672 | ||
673 | make coverage | |
674 | ||
675 | That'll compile Git with GCC's coverage arguments, and generate a test | |
676 | report with gcov after the tests finish. Running the coverage tests | |
677 | can take a while, since running the tests in parallel is incompatible | |
678 | with GCC's coverage mode. | |
679 | ||
680 | After the tests have run you can generate a list of untested | |
681 | functions: | |
682 | ||
683 | make coverage-untested-functions | |
684 | ||
685 | You can also generate a detailed per-file HTML report using the | |
686 | Devel::Cover module. To install it do: | |
687 | ||
688 | # On Debian or Ubuntu: | |
689 | sudo aptitude install libdevel-cover-perl | |
690 | ||
691 | # From the CPAN with cpanminus | |
692 | curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo --self-upgrade | |
693 | cpanm --sudo Devel::Cover | |
694 | ||
695 | Then, at the top-level: | |
696 | ||
697 | make cover_db_html | |
698 | ||
699 | That'll generate a detailed cover report in the "cover_db_html" | |
700 | directory, which you can then copy to a webserver, or inspect locally | |
701 | in a browser. |