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| author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2009-06-12 15:54:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2009-06-12 17:54:47 +0200 |
| commit | 93384da22620f9ab2304ccfc54c8bd6bc8009303 (patch) | |
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| parent | 38780d659be8f8bb061409dd7bee60628e0050de (diff) | |
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selftest: Document the fact that test runner and formatter are now
separate tools.
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diff --git a/selftest/README b/selftest/README index a8c5101a61..4ae043692d 100644 --- a/selftest/README +++ b/selftest/README @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ This directory contains test scripts that are useful for running a bunch of tests all at once. +There are two parts to this: + + * The test runner (selftest/selftest.pl) + * The test formatter + +selftest.pl simply outputs subunit, which can then be formatted or analyzed +by tools that understand the subunit protocol. One of these tools is +format-subunit.pl, which is used by default as part of "make test". + Available testsuites ==================== The available testsuites are obtained from a script, usually |