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run-tests.py: make tests use same python interpreter as test harness. this is wanted because some tests run python interpreter directly. must use same python interpreter in tests as in main harness or problems will happen because of e.g. different python abi if run-tests.py run with python 2.5 but system python is 2.4. fix is to see if system python is used and is named python. if no, put symlink called python at front of shell search path.
author Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com>
date Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:09:24 -0700
parents e506c14382fd
children 1c66aad252f9
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A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
python run-tests.py

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 merge want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg merge, 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 -m "test" -u test -d "1000000 0"

- diff will show the current time

  use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\) [a-zA-Z0-9_/.-]*\).*/\1/" to strip
  dates