| Message ID | 20220925113032.1949844-55-bmeng.cn@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | tests/qtest: Enable running qtest on Windows | expand |
On 25/09/2022 13.30, Bin Meng wrote: > From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com> > > Update the best practices of how to write portable test cases that > can be built and run successfully on both Linux and Windows hosts. > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com> > Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> > --- > > (no changes since v3) > > Changes in v2: > - Minor wording changes > - Drop patches that were already applied in the mainline > - Drop patch: "qga/commands-posix-ssh: Use g_mkdir_with_parents()" > - Drop patch: "tests: Skip iotests and qtest when '--without-default-devices'" > - Drop patch: "tests/qtest: Fix ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION for win32" > > docs/devel/testing.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst > index aea5b42356..0eae9c4654 100644 > --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst > +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst > @@ -115,6 +115,36 @@ check-block > are in the "auto" group). > See the "QEMU iotests" section below for more information. Looks like you've added the new text after the "check-block" section ... could you please add it after the "QTest" section instead? > +Writing portable test cases > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > +Both unit tests and qtests can run on POSIX hosts as well as a Windows host. Nit: better use plural in both cases: "on POSIX hosts as well as Windows hosts". > +Care must be taken when writing portable test cases that can be built and run > +successfully on various hosts. The following are some best practices: Maybe better (but I'm not a native speaker either): "The following list shows some best practices" > +* Use portable APIs from glib whenever necessary, e.g.: g_setenv(), > + g_mkdtemp(), g_mkdir(). > +* Avoid using hardcoded /tmp for temporary file directory. > + Use g_get_tmp_dir() instead. > +* Bear in mind that Windows has different special string representation for > + stdin/stdout/stderr and null devices. For example if your test case uses > + "/dev/fd/2" and "/dev/null" on Linux, remember to use "2" and "nul" on > + Windows instead. Also IO redirection does not work on Windows, so avoid > + using "2>nul" whenever necessary. > +* If your test cases uses the blkdebug feature, use relative path to pass > + the config and image file paths in the command line as Windows absolute > + path contains the delimeter ":" which will confuse the blkdebug parser. s/delimeter/delimiter/ > +* Use double quotes in your extra QEMU commmand line in your test cases > + instead of single quotes, as Windows does not drop single quotes when > + passing the command line to QEMU. > +* Windows opens a file in text mode by default, while a POSIX compliant > + implementation treats text files and binary files the same. So if your > + test cases opens a file to write some data and later wants to compare the > + written data with the original one, be sure to pass the letter 'b' as > + part of the mode string to fopen(), or O_BINARY flag for the open() call. > +* If a certain test case can only run on POSIX or Linux hosts, use a proper > + #ifdef in the codes. If the whole test suite cannot run on Windows, disable > + the build in the meson.build file. > + > QEMU iotests > ------------ > Thomas
diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index aea5b42356..0eae9c4654 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -115,6 +115,36 @@ check-block are in the "auto" group). See the "QEMU iotests" section below for more information. +Writing portable test cases +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Both unit tests and qtests can run on POSIX hosts as well as a Windows host. +Care must be taken when writing portable test cases that can be built and run +successfully on various hosts. The following are some best practices: + +* Use portable APIs from glib whenever necessary, e.g.: g_setenv(), + g_mkdtemp(), g_mkdir(). +* Avoid using hardcoded /tmp for temporary file directory. + Use g_get_tmp_dir() instead. +* Bear in mind that Windows has different special string representation for + stdin/stdout/stderr and null devices. For example if your test case uses + "/dev/fd/2" and "/dev/null" on Linux, remember to use "2" and "nul" on + Windows instead. Also IO redirection does not work on Windows, so avoid + using "2>nul" whenever necessary. +* If your test cases uses the blkdebug feature, use relative path to pass + the config and image file paths in the command line as Windows absolute + path contains the delimeter ":" which will confuse the blkdebug parser. +* Use double quotes in your extra QEMU commmand line in your test cases + instead of single quotes, as Windows does not drop single quotes when + passing the command line to QEMU. +* Windows opens a file in text mode by default, while a POSIX compliant + implementation treats text files and binary files the same. So if your + test cases opens a file to write some data and later wants to compare the + written data with the original one, be sure to pass the letter 'b' as + part of the mode string to fopen(), or O_BINARY flag for the open() call. +* If a certain test case can only run on POSIX or Linux hosts, use a proper + #ifdef in the codes. If the whole test suite cannot run on Windows, disable + the build in the meson.build file. + QEMU iotests ------------