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Add a simple testing framework
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author | mpm@selenic.com |
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date | Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:28:42 -0800 |
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new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +A simple testing framework + +This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes +them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is +run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete. + +A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output +matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in +test-<x>.err. + +There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when +writing tests: + +- hg commit and hg up -m want user interaction + + for commit use -t "text" + for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge) + +- changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make + things like hg history output change + + use commit -t "test" -u test -d "0 0" + +- diff will show the current time + + use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\).*\)\t.*/\1/" to strip dates +