notmuch/test/README, branch 0.30_rc2

tests: environment variable to specify that tests should be serialized

2019-05-07T09:55:31Z

If NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE is non-null all tests will be run in series, rather than in parallel.

test: remove --root option and fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup

2017-10-21T14:32:20Z

The primary motivation here is to fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup prior to running each test when the current working directory is not the test subdirectory. Tests with failures would leave their TMP_DIRECTORY directory behind for debugging, and repeated out-of-tree test runs would have old temp directories. (This lead to e.g. T310-emacs.sh hanging because emacs would prompt for overwriting files.) We remove the likely anyway defunct --root test option while at it, just to be on the safe side when doing 'rm -rf' on the TMP_DIRECTORY.

Fix orthography

2017-07-18T09:50:44Z

tests: add compatibility layer

2017-03-25T10:56:52Z

Make test-lib-common.sh load test-lib-<$PLATFORM>.sh to create additional shim for platform specifics. Use test-lib-FREEBSD.sh to call GNU utilities instead of native ones. - amended by db following Tomi's suggestions

test: require test_begin_subtest before test_expect_code

2017-03-09T13:03:40Z

Unify the subtests by requiring test_begin_subtest before test_expect_code. (Similar change for test_expect_success has already been done.) This increases clarity in the test scripts by having a separate line for the start of the subtest with the heading, and makes it possible to simplify the test infrastructure by making all subtests similar.

test: require test_begin_subtest before test_expect_success

2017-03-09T13:01:21Z

Unify the subtests by requiring test_begin_subtest before test_expect_success. (Similar change for test_expect_code will follow.) This increases clarity in the test scripts by having a separate line for the start of the subtest with the heading, and makes it possible to simplify the test infrastructure by making all subtests similar.

test: copyright information updates

2016-05-19T10:56:58Z

Files in test directories had only copyright of a single individual, of which code was adapted here as a base of the test system. Since then many Notmuch Developers have contributed to the test system, which is now acknowledged with a constant string in some of the test files. The README file in test directory instructed new files contain a copyright notice, but that has never been done (and it is also not needed). To simplify things a bit (and lessen confusion) this instruction is now removed. As a side enchangement, all of the 3 entries in the whole source tree cd'ing to `dirname` of "$0" now uses syntax cd "$(dirname "$0")". This makes these particular lines work when current working directory is e.g. /c/Program Files/notmuch/test/. (Probably it would fail elsewhere, though.)

test/README: have matching test script file names

2016-03-05T00:45:19Z

A while ago test script names were changed to format Tddd-basename.sh. Update README to reflect that. While at it, included some small requirements updates.

test suite: don't consider skipped individual tests as failing

2015-09-25T12:18:22Z

It isn't completely clear what we want to do here, but 1) We currently don't fail if we skip a whole test file (mainly because we neglect to count those skipped tests properly). This change at least makes the two kinds of skipping consistent. 2) Automated build environments may have good reasons for building with a minimal set of prereqs, and we don't want to discourage running our test suite by breaking builds.

test: make script exit (1) if it "fails" to source (.) a file

2015-08-07T19:56:39Z

The files (test) scripts source (with builtin command `.`) provides information which the scripts depend, and without the `source` to succeed allowing script to continue may lead to dangerous situations (e.g. rm -rf "${undefined_variable}"/*). At the end of all source (.) lines construct ' || exit 1' was added; In our case the script script will exit if it cannot find (or read) the file to be sourced. Additionally script would also exits if the last command of the sourced file exited nonzero.