Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] RFC: Proof-of-concept based exeter+Avocado tests

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 10:36:39PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Here's a rough proof of concept showing how we could run tests for
> passt with Avocado and the exeter library I recently created.  It
> includes Cleber's patch adding some basic Avocado tests and builds on
> that.
> 
> The current draft is pretty janky:
>  * The build rules to download and install the necessary pieces are messy
>  * We create the Avocado job files from the exeter sources in the
>    Makefile.  Ideally Avocado would eventually be extended to handle
>    this itself
>  * The names that Avocado sees for each test are overlong
>  * There's some hacks to make sure things are executed from the
>    right working directory
> 
> But, it's a starting point.
> 
> Stefano,
> 
> If you could look particularly at 6/22 and 22/22 which add the real
> tests for passt/pasta, that would be great.  The more specific you can
> be about what you find ugly about how the tests are written, then
> better I can try to address that.
> 
> I suspect it will be easier to actually apply the series, then look at
> the new test files (test/build/build.py, and test/pasta/pasta.py
> particularly).  From there you can look at as much of the support
> library as you need to, rather than digging through the actual patches
> to look for that.

Forgot to mention.  Patches 1 & 2 should be good to go regardless of
what we do with the rest of the testing stuff.

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