Most Emacs tests end with a call to (test-output), which saves the
buffer to a filed called OUTPUT. Previously, if the test code failed
with an exception before this call, the test framework would then
compare against the OUTPUT file from the last Emacs test, resulting in
confusing diffs.
This requires one tweak to an emacs test that made two calls to
test_emacs and expected an OUTPUT file from the first call. We simply
reverse the order of the test_emacs calls.
Before the change, test_expect_equal_file() function treated the first
argument as "actual output file" and the second argument as "expected
output file". When the test fails, the files are copied for later
inspection. The first files was copied to "$testname.output" and the
second file to "$testname.expected". The argument order for
test_expect_equal_file() is often wrong which results in confusing
diff output and incorrectly named files.
The patch solves the issue by changing test_expect_equal_file() to
treat arguments just as two files, without any special properties
(like "actual" and "expected"). The file names for copying is now
based on the given file name: "$testname.$file1" and
"$testname.$file2". E.g. if test_expect_equal_file() is called with
"OUTPUT" and "EXPECTED", the copied files can be named
"emacs.1.OUTPUT" and "emacs.1.EXPECTED".
The down side of this approach is that diff argument order depends on
test_expect_equal_file() argument order. So sometimes we get diff
from expected to actual results, and sometimes the other way around.
But the files are always named correctly.
Previously, we used a variety of ad-hoc canonicalizations for JSON
output in the test suite, but were ultimately very sensitive to JSON
irrelevancies such as whitespace. This introduces a new test
comparison function, test_expect_equal_json, that first pretty-prints
*both* the actual and expected JSON and the compares the result.
The current implementation of this simply uses Python's json.tool to
perform pretty-printing (with a fallback to the identity function if
parsing fails). However, since the interface it introduces is
semantically high-level, we could swap in other mechanisms in the
future, such as another pretty-printer or something that does not
re-order object keys (if we decide that we care about that).
In general, this patch does not remove the existing ad-hoc
canonicalization because it does no harm. We do have to remove the
newline-after-comma rule from notmuch_json_show_sanitize and
filter_show_json because it results in invalid JSON that cannot be
pretty-printed.
Most of this patch simply replaces test_expect_equal and
test_expect_equal_file with test_expect_equal_json. It changes the
expected JSON in a few places where sanitizers had placed newlines
after commas inside strings.
Before the change, messages generated by generate_message() used "Test
message #N" for default subject where N is the generated messages
counter. Since message subject is commonly present in expected
results, there is a chance of breaking other tests when a new
generate_message() call is added. The patch changes default subject
value for generated messages to subtest name if it is available. If
subtest name is not available (i.e. message is generated during test
initialization), the old default value is used (in this case it is
fine to have the counter in the subject).
Another benefit of this change is a sane default value for subject in
generated messages, which would allow to simplify code like:
test_begin_subtest "test for a cool feature"
add_message [subject]="message for test for a cool feature"
Emails that are encoded differently than as ASCII or UTF-8 are not
indexed properly by notmuch. It is not possible to search for non-ASCII
words within those messages.
When tests are skipped due to missing prereqs, those prereqs are only
displayed when running with the `--verbose' option. This is essential
information when troubleshooting, so always send to stdout.
Add a new test function to allow simpler testing of emacs
functionality.
`test_emacs_expect_t' takes one argument - a lisp expression to
evaluate. The test passes if the expression returns `t', otherwise it
fails and the output is reported to the tester.
When checking for a running emacs, test_emacs evaluates the empty list
'()'. This returns 'nil' when emacs is running, which is then
prepended to the actual test result. Given that it is not part of the
actual test output the test harness can incorrectly report test
failure (or success).
Used emacs (whitespace-cleanup) function to "cleanup blank problems"
in test files where that could be done without breaking tests;
test/emacs was partially, and test/multipart was fully reverted.
When running the Emacs tests in verbose mode, only the first missing
prereq is reported because the `run_emacs' function is short-circuited
early:
#+begin_example
emacs: Testing emacs interface
missing prerequisites: [0] emacs(1)
skipping test: [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
SKIP [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
#+end_example
This can lead to situations reminiscent of "dependency hell", so instead
of returning based on each individual `test_require_external_prereq's exit
status, we now do so only after checking all the prereqs:
#+begin_example
emacs: Testing emacs interface
missing prerequisites: [0] dtach(1) emacs(1) emacsclient(1)
skipping test: [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
SKIP [0] Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs
#+end_example
Also added missing prereq for dtach(1).
It makes no sense to run test-lib.sh, so it makes no sense to give it
an interpreter. This is particularly annoying for Emacs users who
have executable-insert set, since the presence of the #! line will
cause Emacs to mark test-lib.sh executable when saving it, which will
in turn case the 'basic' test to fail.
January 5, 2001 was a Tuesday, not a Friday. Jameson fixed this exact
problem for the multipart test in ec2b0a98cc, but not for
generate_message itself.
As Jameson pointed out in ec2b0a98cc, if we want to test date parsing,
we should do it separately.
As we start to pay more attention to emacs24, it helps to be able to
select a different version of emacs to run the tests with to verify
version specific bugs.
A separate variable TEST_EMACS is needed to avoid being overwritten by the
make variable EMACS in Makefile.config
For what it's worth, the value of emacs is chosen at the time
tmp.emacs/run_emacs is created, so is fixed for all subtests.
The idea is that $test_count could be used in tests to label
intermediate files. The output enabled by this patch (and --debug)
helps figure out which OUTPUT.nn file belongs to which test in case
several subtests write to OUTPUT.$test_count
Some distros (Arch Linux) ship Python as python2 and Python 3 as python.
Checking for python2 is necessary for the Python tests to work on these
platforms.
The new test_python() function makes writing Python tests a little easier:
- it sets the environment variables as needed
- it redirects stdout to the OUTPUT file (like test_emacs()).
This commit also declares python as an external prereq.
The stdout redirection is required to avoid trouble when running commands like
"python 'script' | sort > OUTPUT": in such a case, any error due to a missing
external prereq would be "swallowed" by sort, resulting to a failed test instead
of a skipped one.
The patch adds two auxiliary functions and a variable:
notmuch_counter_reset
$notmuch_counter_command
notmuch_counter_value
They allow to count how many times notmuch binary is called.
notmuch_counter_reset() function generates a script that counts how
many times it is called and resets the counter to zero. The function
sets $notmuch_counter_command variable to the path to the generated
script that should be called instead of notmuch to do the counting.
The notmuch_counter_value() function returns the current counter
value.
The fake missing binary functions check if the binary has already be
added to the diagnostic message to avoid duplicates. Unfortunately,
this check was buggy because the message string does not have the
trailing space.
test_missing_external_prereq_${binary}_ variable indicates that the
binary is missing. It must be set in test_declare_external_prereq()
outside of the fake $binary() function.
Some tests (e.g. crypto) do a common initialization required for all
subtests. The patch adds a check for missing external dependencies
during this initialization. If any prerequisites are missing, all
subtests are skipped.
The check is run on the first call of test_reset_state_ function, so
no changes for the tests are needed.
There is existing support for general prerequisites in the test suite.
But it is not very convenient to use: every test case has to keep
track for it's dependencies and they have to be explicitly listed.
The patch aims to add better support for a particular type of external
dependencies: external executables. The main idea is to replace
missing external binaries with shell functions that have the same
name. These functions always fail and keep track of missing
dependencies for a subtest. The result reporting functions later can
check that an external binaries are missing and correctly report SKIP
result instead of FAIL. The primary benefit is that the test cases do
not need to declare their dependencies or be changed in any way.
If mail sending from emacs fails before it has chance to connect
to the smtp-dummy mail server, the opportunistic QUIT message
sending makes smtp-dummy to exit.
Due to 108-character limit in unix domain socket path this change
is required; it is more probable that length of ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} is
shorter than length of path to the current directory of notmuch test
source directory. One can expect to create reasonable-length unix
domain sockets wherever $TMPDIR points to.
The TEST_TMPDIR if first needed to hold dtach's socket (due
to 108-character limit in socket file names). Later it can be
used to hold other temporary files; directory deleted at exit.
Do not redirect test_emacs stderr to /dev/null. Test_emacs uses
emacsclient(1) now and it does not print unwanted messages (like
those from `message') to stderr. But it does print useful
errors, e.g. when emacs server connection fails, given expression
is not valid or undefined function is called.
Set SCREENRC and SYSSCREENRC environment variables to "/dev/null"
as suggested by Jim Paris to avoid potential problems with
screen(1) configuration files.
Before the change, emacs run in daemon mode without any visible
buffers. Turns out that this affects emacs behavior in some
cases. In particular, `window-end' function returns `point-max'
instead of the last visible position. That makes it hard or
impossible to implement some tests. The patch runs emacs in a
detached screen(1) session. So that it works exactly as if it
has a visible window.
Note: screen terminates when emacs exits. So the patch does not
introduce new "running processes left behind" issues.
- explain test_expect_equal_file
- remove mention of test_expect_failure, since that function was removed.
Based on id:"1317317811-29540-1-git-send-email-thomas@schwinge.name"
This means that test_subtest_known_broken needs to be called before
every known broken subtest, which is no different than what is
documented for the test_begin_subtest case.
The assumption is that every test ends up calling either skipping,
calling test_ok_ or test_failure_ and and the latter in turn delegate
to the known_broken versions in the case where
test_subtest_known_broken_ is set.
There is existing support for broken tests. But it is not convenient
to use. The primary issue is that we have to maintain a set of
test_expect_*_failure functions which are equivalent to the normal
test_expect_* counterparts except for what functions are called for
result reporting. The patch adds test_subtest_known_broken function
which marks a subset as broken, making the normal test_expect_*
functions behave as test_expect_*_failure. All test_expect_*_failure
functions are removed. Test_known_broken_failure_ is changed to
format details the same way as test_failure_ does.
Another benefit of this change is that the diff when a broken test is
fixed would be small and nice.
Documentation is updated accordingly.
Before the change, every Emacs test ran in a separate Emacs
instance. Starting Emacs many times wastes considerable time and
it gets worse as the test suite grows. The patch solves this by
using a single Emacs server and emacsclient(1) to run multiple
tests. Emacs server is started on the first test_emacs call and
stopped when test_done is called. We take care not to leave
orphan Emacs processes behind when test is terminated by whatever
reason: Emacs server runs a watchdog that periodically checks
that the test is still running.
Some tests need to provide user input. Before the change, this
was done using echo(1) to Emacs stdin. This no longer works and
instead `standard-input' variable is set accordingly to make
`read' return the appropriate string.
Without this, mail messages delivered by emacs_deliver_message might
not be seen by the next invocation of "notmuch new", (which can lead
to test-suite failures if emacs_deliver_message is fast enough).
Change add_email_corpus, emacs_deliver_message and tests to use
$TEST_DIRECTORY instead of '..'.
This improves the behavior of the usage of --root=<dir>, as the
assumption of what '..' means will usually be incorrect.
Document -root option in README and update valgrind to work with
-root.
