From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:51:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: initial test suite file format description X-Git-Tag: curl-7_9~39 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=afa7648be6f2269c8ed3d0c8a66c906867f575e1;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git initial test suite file format description --- diff --git a/tests/FILEFORMAT b/tests/FILEFORMAT new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..de410d0eee --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/FILEFORMAT @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ + The file format of the test suite is a very simple and extendable format. All +data for a single test case resides in a single ASCII file. Labels mark the +beginning and the end of all sections. Each label must be written in its own +line and is resembling XML/HTML. + + Each file is split up in three main sections: reply, client and verify. The +reply section is used for the server to know what to send as a reply for the +requests curl sends, the client section defines how the client should behave +while the verify section defines how to verify that the data stored after a +command has been run ended up correctly. + + Each main section has a number of available subsections that can be +specified, that will be checked/used if specified. This document includes all +the subsections currently supported. + + + +data to sent to the client on its request + + +if the data is sent but this is what should be checked afterwards + + +number to return on a ftp SIZE command + + + + + +test case description + + +command line to run, there's a bunch of %variables that get replaced +accordingly. more about them elsewhere + + +this creates the named file with this content before the test case is run +which is useful if the test case needs a file to act on. + + + + + +numerical error code curl is supposed to return + + +the protocol dump curl should transmit + + +the contents of the upload data curl should have sent + +