Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] qemu-iotests: quality of life improvements

[Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>]

On 23/03/2021 19:19, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This series adds a few usability improvements to qemu-iotests, in
> particular:
> 
> - arguments can be passed to Python unittests scripts, for example
>    to run only a subset of the test cases (patches 1-2)
> 
> - it is possible to do "./check -- ../../../tests/qemu-iotests/055 args..."
>    and specify arbitrary arguments to be passed to a single test script.
>    This allows to take advantage of the previous feature and ease debugging
>    of Python tests.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> v1->v2: patches 1-2 are a rewrite of v1's patch 1
>          moved print_env change to patch 4
>          do not use argparse.REMAINDER
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (5):
>    qemu-iotests: do not buffer the test output
>    qemu-iotests: allow passing unittest.main arguments to the test
>      scripts
>    qemu-iotests: move command line and environment handling from
>      TestRunner to TestEnv
>    qemu-iotests: let "check" spawn an arbitrary test command
>    qemu-iotests: fix case of SOCK_DIR already in the environment
> 
>   tests/qemu-iotests/check         | 15 +++++-
>   tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py    | 78 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py    | 22 +++++++--
>   tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py | 15 +-----
>   4 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 

I can confirm that this helps a lot when debugging tests.

Tested-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>