Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Replace custom test harness with "meson test"

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/10/21 11:51, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> * CTRL+C will only interrupt the longest running test.  Pressing
>>    CTRL+C repeatedly three times (which you would likely do anyway,
>>    that's how things work) interrupts the whole run
> 
> I tried this, and while hitting CTRL-C multiple times brought me back to 
> the shell prompt, the remaining tests kept getting started in the 
> background instead of getting stopped ... something is still fishy here, 
> I think.

Ok, I checked that out.  Looks like CTRL+C magic and "make -j" are 
incompatible. :/  So this will have to wait a bit more, but in the 
meanwhile people can already use "meson test" if they want.

>> * Right now "make check-block" only does a single test run just like
>>    "../tests/check-block.sh", but it would be possible to add the 
>> thorough
>>    suite to "meson test --suite block" as well.
> 
> The output of the iotests is also not optimal yet... when running "make 
> check SPEED=slow", the iotests are run multiple times with different 
> target image types, but each run prints the same "▶ 1/1 test 001   OK" 
> etc. to the console, so it's hard to say which target type  is currently 
> exercised. Would it be possible to include the target image type here, 
> e.g. something like:

Yes, that's trivial:

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py 
b/tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py
index 3ef14af1fa..45debc1928 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/testrunner.py
@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ def test_print_one_line(self, test: str, 
starttime: str,

          if self.tap:
              if status == 'pass':
-                print(f'ok test {test}')
+                print(f'ok {self.env.imgfmt} {test}')
              elif status == 'fail':
-                print(f'not ok test {test}')
+                print(f'not ok {self.env.imgfmt} {test}')
              elif status == 'not run':
-                print(f'ok test {test} # SKIP')
+                print(f'ok {self.env.imgfmt} {test} # SKIP')
              return

          if lasttime:

In fact, that's exactly what was printed in the non-TAP case.  Thanks 
for the feedback, even though it was bad! :)

Paolo