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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] t/README: Document test_external*
Date: Thu,  1 Jul 2010 20:17:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278015478-6920-6-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278015478-6920-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

There was do documentation for the test_external_without_stderr and
test_external functions.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 t/README |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 2df56a8..d9b5294 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -330,6 +330,33 @@ library for your script to use.
 	    test_done
 	fi
 
+ - test_external [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script>
+
+   Execute a <script> with an <external> interpreter (like perl). This
+   was added for tests like t9700-perl-git.sh which do most of their
+   work in an external test script.
+
+	test_external_without_stderr \
+	    'Perl API' \
+	    "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
+
+   If the test is outputting its own TAP you should set the
+   test_external_has_tap variable somewhere before calling the first
+   test_external* function. See t9700-perl-git.sh for an example.
+
+	# The external test will outputs its own plan
+	test_external_has_tap=1
+
+ - test_external_without_stderr [<prereq>] <message> <external> <script>
+
+   Like test_external but fail if there's any output on stderr,
+   instead of checking the exit code.
+
+	test_external_without_stderr \
+	    'Perl API' \
+	    "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t9700/test.pl
+
+
 Tips for Writing Tests
 ----------------------
 
-- 
1.7.1.251.g92a7

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-01 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-01 20:17 [PATCH v2 0/8] Improvements for t/README Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] t/README: Tests are all +x, ./test, not sh ./test Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 23:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-02  1:00     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name' Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_* Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-07-01 20:52   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] t/README: Document test_external* Jakub Narebski
2010-07-01 21:18     ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t/README: Document test_expect_code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] t/README: Add a section about skipping tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-01 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-02  7:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Improvements for t/README Jeff King

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