Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] RFC: New proof-of-concept based exeter tests

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:54:52 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Here's a new approach to building passt tests with exeter.  This new
> one no longer uses Avocado in the default case, although it would
> still be possible to manually run the exeter based tests with Avocado.
> 
> Here's another draft of my work on testing passt with Avocado and the
> exeter library I recently created.  It includes Cleber's patch adding
> some basic Avocado tests and builds on that.
> 
> For now this only does simple tests, to show how the integration could
> work.  It adds some new trivial "smoke tests" and converts the linter
> and build checks to exeter.  More complex tests will require building
> the sinte/pesto library we've discussed.  A lot of the work for that
> already exists in my earlier exeter test series, but it will need some
> rework to split it into a separate component.
> 
> v5:
>  * Updated according to Stefano's review
>    - Fixed a number of whitespace errors
>    - Improved many comments and variable names to make things clearer
>  * New patch adding parallel test execution with BATS
>  * Improved autodetection of exeter tests using "exetool probe"

This works on my setup and looks good to me, I just have two comments:

- test names are still the same as before (not exactly descriptive, say,
  'make_passt'). I already reported this on v4, I'm not sure what was
  your conclusion about it

- I didn't check (yet) what happens when I run this as ./ci (for
  example, from the pre-push hook), if generated web links are still
  okay. I'll do that soon unless you can have a look first

-- 
Stefano