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[PULL,04/56] docs/devel/testing: add debug section to the QEMU iotests chapter

Message ID 20210901151619.689075-5-hreitz@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [PULL,01/56] python: qemu: add timer parameter for qmp.accept socket | expand

Commit Message

Hanna Czenczek Sept. 1, 2021, 3:15 p.m. UTC 
From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>

Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation
to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-5-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
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 docs/devel/testing.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 8a9cda33a5..8359f2ae37 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -224,6 +224,14 @@  another application on the host may have locked the file, possibly leading to a
 test failure.  If using such devices are explicitly desired, consider adding
 ``locking=off`` option to disable image locking.
 
+Debugging a test case
+-----------------------
+The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging
+a failing test:
+
+* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
+  for example the QMP commands and answers.
+
 Test case groups
 ----------------