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[2a10:fc81:a806:d6a9::1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-45b47caca5bsm49051615e9.22.2025.08.20.13.40.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:40:48 +0200 From: Stefano Brivio To: David Gibson Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] RFC: New proof-of-concept based exeter tests Message-ID: <20250820224048.413d9f2a@elisabeth> In-Reply-To: <20250820105456.1281906-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> References: <20250820105456.1281906-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Organization: Red Hat X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.49; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: TD3FRuD2AtQkSpds9vW9cfuBU5TWeqWZ9KJVFbFxXoI_1755722451 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: QG2S4CIWI56OY37EYPKUXOBRPFQF7FNT X-Message-ID-Hash: QG2S4CIWI56OY37EYPKUXOBRPFQF7FNT X-MailFrom: sbrivio@redhat.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: passt-dev@passt.top X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussion and patches for passt Archived-At: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:54:52 +1000 David Gibson 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