The numbers were meaningless, and they made it hard to find a file of interest.
Instead, we get the ordering we want by adding an explicit list of
tests to run to the notmuch-test script.
These were interfering with the aggregate statistics reported at the
end of the test-suite run. (Always reporting 1 broken, 1 fixed, and 1
skipped). The correct way to test the test-suite itself would be to
run the test suite externally for these cases, capture the expected
result, and then report that as a PASS test.
But, really, there's almost no value in these tests anyway. It's
almost to the level of testing that 'if false; exit 1; fi' returns
1. That is, there are so many ways that the test suite could be broken
internally, that these minor tests don't really help.
This makes the new, git-derived test suite report results in a manner
similar to the original notmuch test suite.
Notable changes include:
* No more initial '*' on every line
* Only colorize a single word
* Don't print useless test numbers
* Use "PASS" in place of "ok"
* Begin sentences with a capital letter
* Print test descriptions for each block
* Separate each block of tests with a blank line
* Don't summarize counts between each block
The changes are:
- The notmuch-test was split into several files (t000?-*.sh).
- Removed helper functions which were moved to test-lib.sh
- Replaced every printf with test_expect_success.
- Test commands chained with && (test-lib.sh doesn't use "set -e" in
order to complete the test suite even if something fails)
- Many variables such as ${MAIL_DIR} were properly quoted as they
contain spaces.
- Changed quoting patterns in add_message and generate_message (single
quotes are already used by the test framework).
- ${TEST_DIR} replaced by ${PWD}
QUICK HOWTO:
To run the whole test suite
make
To run only a single test
./t0001-new.sh
To stop on the first error
./t0001-new.sh -i
then mail store and database can be inspected in
"trash directory.t0001-new"
To see the output of tests
./t0001-new.sh -v
To not remove trash directory at the end:
./t0001-new.sh -d
To run all tests verbosely:
make GIT_TEST_OPTS="-v"
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
This removes Git specific things from the test-lib.sh and adds helper
functions for notmuch taken from Carl's notmuch-test script. README is
also slightly modified to reflect the current state.
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Git uses a simple and yet powerful test framework, written in shell.
The framework is easy to use for both users and developers so I think
it would help if it is used in notmuch as well.
This is a copy of Git's test framework from commit
b6b0afdc30e066788592ca07c9a6c6936c68cc11 in git repository.
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
