kmod/testsuite/README
Emil Velikov c5c36b61da testsuite: remove need_spawn = false support
Our test suite is a little unique in my experience in that the test can
be either a normal (fork) child or a (re)spawned one. All the other test
frameworks I have used opt for only one of the two.

I'm not entirely sure why we have both since the latter is sufficient for
all use-cases that we have. Perhaps the former was kept as
micro-optimisation?

Currently I am exploring a way to provide the results summary and the
need_spawn = false ones, are printed multiple times. At a glance I
couldn't quite find a way to fix it.

In addition I am also looking at removing/reducing the use of exit()
across the test suite. Where the two code-flows makes that process more
convoluted.

So let's remove one of the code-paths, simplify things and fix the
logging output. If needed we can re-introduce it later on.

NOTE: there's a lot going on here, because clang-format insist on
reformatting bunch of the DEFINE_TEST() instances :-\

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/pull/246
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
2024-11-20 22:27:37 -06:00

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testsuite
OVERVIEW
========
Kmod's testsuite was designed to automate the process of running tests with
different scenarios, configurations and architectures. The idea is that once we
received a bug report, we reproduce it using the testsuite so we avoid
recurring on the same bug in future.
FEATURES
========
- Isolate each test by running them in separate processes;
- Exec a binary, so we can test the tools and not only the lib API
- Fake accesses to filesystem so we can provide a test rootfs with all the
configuration, indexes, etc that test needs to be executed.
- Fake calls to init_module(), delete_module() and uname(), so we don't have to
run tests as root and figure out how to deal with different architectures.
HOW TO ADD A TEST
=================
The simplest way to add a test is to copy and paste one already there. Most of
the options you can have are covered by another tests. This is what you need to
pay attention when writing a test:
1 - Look at testsuite.h, struct test, to see all the options available.
2 - Use TESTSUITE_MAIN and DEFINE_TEST to add new tests. Don't forget to fill
its description.
3 - If you want testsuite to compare the stdout/stderr of your tests in order
to check if it worked or not, fill in output.{stderr,stdout} the file with
the expected output. Bear in mind the same file is used for all
architectures, so don't print arch-dependent content if you are comparing
the output.
4 - Fill in the config vector. Setting any of these configuration will make
testsuite to export LD_PRELOAD with the necessary override libs before
executing the test. See each config description in testsuite.h
5 - expected_fail: if that test is expected to fail, i.e. the return code is
expected not to be 0.
6 - The rootfs is populated by copying the entire contents of rootfs-pristine
through setup-rootfs.sh then running setup-modules.sh to copy generated
modules from module-playground. Update the latter script to include any
modules your test needs.
7 - Tests can be run individually, outside of 'meson test'. strace and gdb
work too, as long as you tell them to operate on child process.
When running with sanitizers, make sure to 'source scripts/sanitizer-env.sh'.
Sanitizers are not guaranteed to work well with other tools like strace and gdb.
8 - Make sure test passes when using "default" build flags, i.e. by running
'meson setup --native-file build-dev.ini ...', which by default enables the
sanitizers.