Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] iotests: skip tests with unchanged dependencies

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

Hi Kevin, ping?

Will probably need to respin to update the deps (for new tests) by now,
but are you willing to take this series?

--js

On 06/02/2015 03:18 PM, John Snow wrote:
> This patchset is a little off the beaten path, but:
> 
> Add the ability to skip tests that have already been run whose external
> dependencies have remained unchanged since the last test run.
> 
> This is useful for, say, re-running a test set to see if a failure was
> a one-off or is reproducible by just re-running the last command, which
> will skip all the tests that completed, but hitting all the ones that
> failed or were not run.
> 
> It's also useful for testing patchsets for publication against bisect
> problems by only running tests after each patch that have changed anything
> worth testing -- for instance, a patch that only changes documentation
> is not going to change any of the binaries, so we can skip a large swath
> of tests here.
> 
> The new feature is, of course, optional and can be invoked with -ts.
> 
> ===
> v3:
> ===
> 
> - Fixed commit message for patch 1 (s/grep/awk/)
> - Added a pinch of dependency group documentation to patch 2
> 
> ===
> v2:
> ===
> 
> - Replaced grep script for awk in patch 1
> - Added qemu dependency in patch 2
> 
> ==
> For convenience, this branch is available at:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch ch3ck
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/tree/ch3ck
> 
> This version is tagged ch3ck-v3:
> https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/releases/tag/ch3ck-v3
> ==
> 
> John Snow (4):
>   iotests: fix exclusion option
>   iotests: Add dependency info to groups list
>   iotests: add timestamp skip feature
>   iotests: clarify help text
> 
>  tests/qemu-iotests/check  | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common | 15 ++++++++--
>  tests/qemu-iotests/group  | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  3 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>