test/README: Document add_email_corpus (and add_message/generate_message)

While adding the documentation here for add_email_corpus I noticed
that the other email-adding functions in test-lib.sh were not yet
documented here, so add all of that documentation.
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Carl Worth 2010-09-20 16:41:31 -07:00
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@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ This test harness library does the following things:
- If the script is invoked with command line argument --help
(or -h), it shows the test_description and exits.
- Creates a temporary directory with default notmuch-config and empty
mail store. This directory is 'test/tmp.<test-basename>'. The path
to notmuch-config is exported in NOTMUCH_CONFIG environment
variable and mail store path is stored in MAIL_DIR variable.
- Creates a temporary directory with default notmuch-config and a
mail store with a corpus of mail, (initially, 50 early messages
sent to the notmuch list). This directory is
test/tmp.<test-basename>. The path to notmuch-config is exported in
NOTMUCH_CONFIG environment variable and mail store path is stored
in MAIL_DIR variable.
- Defines standard test helper functions for your scripts to
use. These functions are designed to make all scripts behave
@ -115,13 +117,13 @@ Test harness library
There are a handful helper functions defined in the test harness
library for your script to use.
- test_expect_success <message> <script>
test_expect_success <message> <script>
This takes two strings as parameter, and evaluates the
<script>. If it yields success, test is considered
successful. <message> should state what it is testing.
- test_expect_failure <message> <script>
test_expect_failure <message> <script>
This is NOT the opposite of test_expect_success, but is used
to mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage. Unlike
@ -130,12 +132,12 @@ library for your script to use.
success and "still broken" on failure. Failures from these
tests won't cause -i (immediate) to stop.
- test_begin_subtest <message>
test_begin_subtest <message>
Set the test description message for a subsequent test_expect_equal
invocation (see below).
- test_expect_equal <output> <expected>
test_expect_equal <output> <expected>
This is an often-used convenience function built on top of
test_expect_success. It uses the message from the last
@ -145,16 +147,41 @@ library for your script to use.
will generate a failure and print the difference of the two
strings.
- test_debug <script>
test_debug <script>
This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
when the test script is started with --debug command line
argument. This is primarily meant for use during the
development of a new test script.
- test_done
test_done
Your test script must have test_done at the end. Its purpose
is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and
exit with an appropriate error code.
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There are also a number of mail-specific functions which are useful in
writing tests:
generate_message
Generates a message with an optional template. Most tests will
actually prefere to call add_message. See below.
add_message
Generate a message and add it to the database (by calling "notmuch
new"). It is sufficient to simply call add_message with no
arguments if you don't care about the content of the message. If
more control is needed, arguments can be provide to specify many
different header values for the new message. See the documentation
within test-lib.sh or refer to many example calls within existing
tests.
add_email_corpus
This function should be called at the beginning of a test file
when a test needs to operate on a non-empty body of messages. It
will intialize the mail database to a known state of 50 sample
messages, (culled from the early history of the notmuch mailing
list).