[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Automated regression tests now part of development work flow

[Vijay Bellur]

On 02/25/2013 10:51 AM, Amar Tumballi wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 02:53 AM, Anand Avati wrote:
>
>> More details on how to write test cases with examples and how the
>> framework works can be found at -
>>
>> 1. "tests: pre-commit regression tests"
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/commit/bb41c8ab88f1a3d8c54b635674d0a72133623496
>>
>> 2. tests/README in glusterfs.git
>> 3. Example new change - http://review.gluster.org/4114
>>
>> Please offer feedback on how the framework can be improved (inclusion of
>> more tools?) to capture test cases better.
>>
>
> This is a simple question on guide lines of writing a test case, and has
> raised due to failure of tests for patch http://review.gluster.org/4567
> in particular.
>
> Looks like the failure of the tests for this patch (logs here
> http://build.gluster.org/job/regression/729/consoleFull ) are due to
> missing 'cleanup;' at the end of the script added in this patch. But the
> question is, should the test script always 'assume' it starts from a
> clean slate, or should it call a 'cleanup;' at the beginning all the time?
>
> It would help me to review the patchsets by having clear answer to this.
>

I consider bug-000000.t to be the template and it does contain cleanup 
at the end of it. Maybe we should add this detail to tests/README?

-Vijay