Re: [Qemu-devel] What tests should "make check-block" run?

[Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:05:56PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 21 August 2014 14:12, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 02:27:00PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > >> Should we have a variant of "make check-block" for testing other
> > >> (format, protocol) combinations?
> > >
> > > I don't think variants are useful.  If you need control, use ./check.
> > 
> > That seems pretty undiscoverable to me. I know about 'make check',
> > and 'make check-help' tells me about 'make check-block', but how
> > do I find out about 'check' ? I just had to bounce through the makefile
> > and a wrapper script to even figure out which directory it lives in,
> > and there's no help text or usage comments in it...
> 
> http://qemu-project.org/Documentation/QemuIoTests
> 
> Any suggestions for making it more discoverable?
> 

A couple of suggestions:

1.) Add a README file to the 'tests' directory

2.) Make the 'tests' directory more hierarchical.  It is not obvious
that 'qemu-iotests' (and the other tests) are something different than
the giant ball of .c files that is also in the tests directory. I
think it would be ideal to have the 'tests' directory contain 2 files
(Makefile, README), and then sub-directories.