tests: add timeouts, make run-tests.py clean up dead daemon processes
test timeout feature is needed for test with python 2.5 beta. if test
does not complete in time (30 seconds is default), it is killed.
some times daemon process used in test can be alive after the test
is killed by user or by timeout. tests now record daemon pids into
$DAEMON_PIDS and run-tests.py kills all living daemons after every test.
final little change is to add newline to end of pid file printed by
"hg serve", else "cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_FILES" gives garbage.
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