tests/README
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:38:59 +0200
changeset 2044 b343e7d454b4
parent 1933 7544700fd931
child 2207 8a2a7f7d9df6
permissions -rw-r--r--
Don't allow --style and --template for hg update and hg merge. The only way that changesets will be shown with these command is in an error message when trying to update to an ambiguous branch name.

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