tests/README
author Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:40:46 -0800
changeset 1951 696230e52e4d
parent 1933 7544700fd931
child 2207 8a2a7f7d9df6
permissions -rw-r--r--
add HGRCPATH env var, list of places to look for hgrc files. if set, override default hgrc search path. if empty, only .hg/hgrc of current repo read. for each element, if directory, all entries in directory with end in ".rc" are added to path. else, element is added to path. big thing about this change is that user "~/.hgrc" and system hgrc not longer breaks tests. run-tests makes HGRCPATH empty now.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
./run-tests

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 -m "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 -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