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-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/Makefile140
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/basics_chapter.xml215
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/book.xml50
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/example_chapter.xml151
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/fascicules.xml18
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml1694
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/notes_history.xml113
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/part.xml46
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes.xml41
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml39
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/ref_man.xml44
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml50
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml853
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_app.xml75
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_ctrl.xml844
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/test_spec_chapter.xml375
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/ts.xml568
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/why_test_chapter.xml141
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/write_framework_chapter.xml160
-rw-r--r--lib/test_server/doc/src/write_test_chapter.xml228
20 files changed, 0 insertions, 5845 deletions
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/Makefile b/lib/test_server/doc/src/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c5418aee5..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,140 +0,0 @@
-#
-# %CopyrightBegin%
-#
-# Copyright Ericsson AB 2002-2012. All Rights Reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-# %CopyrightEnd%
-#
-
-include $(ERL_TOP)/make/target.mk
-include $(ERL_TOP)/make/$(TARGET)/otp.mk
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# Application version
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-include ../../vsn.mk
-VSN=$(TEST_SERVER_VSN)
-APPLICATION=test_server
-
-DOC_EXTRA_FRONT_PAGE_INFO=Important note: \
-The Test Server application is obsolete and will be removed \
-in the next major OTP release
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# Release directory specification
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-RELSYSDIR = $(RELEASE_PATH)/lib/$(APPLICATION)-$(VSN)
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# Target Specs
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-XML_APPLICATION_FILES = ref_man.xml
-XML_REF3_FILES = \
- test_server_ctrl.xml \
- test_server.xml
-XML_REF3_INTERNAL = \
- ts.xml
-XML_REF6_FILES = test_server_app.xml
-
-XML_PART_FILES = \
- part.xml \
- part_notes.xml \
- part_notes_history.xml
-
-XML_CHAPTER_FILES = \
- basics_chapter.xml \
- run_test_chapter.xml \
- write_test_chapter.xml \
- test_spec_chapter.xml \
- example_chapter.xml \
- write_framework_chapter.xml \
- notes.xml \
- notes_history.xml
-
-BOOK_FILES = book.xml
-
-XML_FILES = $(BOOK_FILES) $(XML_APPLICATION_FILES) $(XML_REF3_FILES) $(XML_REF6_FILES) \
- $(XML_PART_FILES) $(XML_CHAPTER_FILES)
-
-GIF_FILES =
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-
-HTML_FILES = $(XML_APPLICATION_FILES:%.xml=$(HTMLDIR)/%.html) \
- $(XML_PART_FILES:%.xml=$(HTMLDIR)/%.html)
-
-HTML_INTERNAL = $(XML_REF3_INTERNAL:%.xml=$(HTMLDIR)/%.html)
-
-INFO_FILE = ../../info
-
-MAN3_FILES = $(XML_REF3_FILES:%.xml=$(MAN3DIR)/%.3)
-MAN3_INTERNAL = $(XML_REF3_INTERNAL:%.xml=$(MAN3DIR)/%.3)
-MAN6_FILES = $(XML_REF6_FILES:%_app.xml=$(MAN6DIR)/%.6)
-
-HTML_REF_MAN_FILE = $(HTMLDIR)/index.html
-
-TOP_PDF_FILE = $(PDFDIR)/test_server-$(VSN).pdf
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# FLAGS
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-XML_FLAGS +=
-DVIPS_FLAGS +=
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# Targets
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-$(HTMLDIR)/%.gif: %.gif
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $< $@
-
-docs: pdf html man
-
-pdf: $(TOP_PDF_FILE)
-
-html: gifs $(HTML_REF_MAN_FILE)
-
-man: $(MAN3_FILES) $(MAN3_INTERNAL) $(MAN6_FILES)
-
-gifs: $(GIF_FILES:%=$(HTMLDIR)/%)
-
-debug opt:
-
-clean clean_docs:
- rm -rf $(HTMLDIR)/*
- rm -f $(MAN3DIR)/*
- rm -f $(MAN6DIR)/*
- rm -f $(TOP_PDF_FILE) $(TOP_PDF_FILE:%.pdf=%.fo)
- rm -f errs core *~
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-# Release Target
-# ----------------------------------------------------
-include $(ERL_TOP)/make/otp_release_targets.mk
-
-release_docs_spec: docs
- $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf"
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TOP_PDF_FILE) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf"
- $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html"
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(HTMLDIR)/* \
- "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html"
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(INFO_FILE) "$(RELSYSDIR)"
- $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3"
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN3_FILES) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3"
- $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6"
- $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN6_FILES) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6"
-
-release_spec:
-
-release_tests_spec:
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/basics_chapter.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/basics_chapter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e9f38aab4..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/basics_chapter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,215 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Basics</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>basics_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <p><em>Test Server</em> is a portable test tool for automated
- testing of Erlang programs and OTP applications. It provides an
- interface for running test programs directly with Test Server
- as well as an interface for integrating Test Server
- with a framework application. The latter makes it possible to use
- Test Server as the engine of a higher level test tool
- application.</p>
-
- <p>It is strongly recommended that Test Server be used from inside
- a framework application, rather than interfaced directly for
- running test programs. Test Server can be pretty difficult to use
- since it's a very general and quite extensive and complex
- application. Furthermore, the <c>test_server_ctrl</c> functions
- are not meant to be used from within the actual test programs. The
- framework should handle communication with Test Server and deal
- with the more complex aspects of this interaction automatically so
- that a higher level interface may be provided for the tester. For
- test tool usage to be productive, a simpler, more intuitive and
- (if required) more specific interface is required than what Test Server
- can provide.</p>
-
- <p>OTP delivers a general purpose framework for Test Server, called
- <em>Common Test</em>. This application is a tool well suited for
- automated black box testing of target systems of <em>any kind</em>
- (not necessarily implemented in Erlang). Common Test is also a very
- useful tool for white box testing of Erlang programs and OTP
- applications. Unless a more specific functionality and/or user
- interface is required (in which case you might need to implement
- your own framework), Common Test should do the job for
- you. Please read the Common Test User's Guide and reference manual
- for more information.</p>
-
- <p>Under normal circumstances, knowledge about the Test Server
- application is not required for using the Common Test framework.
- However, if you want to use Test Server without a framework,
- or learn how to integrate it with your own framework, please read on...
- </p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Getting started</title>
- <p>Testing when using Test Server is done by running test
- suites. A test suite is a number of test cases, where each test
- case tests one or more things. The test case is the smallest unit
- that the test server deals with. One or more test cases are
- grouped together into one ordinary Erlang module, which is called
- a test suite. Several test suite modules can be grouped together
- in special test specification files representing whole application
- and/or system test "jobs".
- </p>
- <p>The test suite Erlang module must follow a certain interface,
- which is specified by Test Server. See the section on writing
- test suites for details about this.
- </p>
- <p>Each test case is considered a success if it returns to the
- caller, no matter what the returned value is. An exception to this
- is the return value <c>{skip, Reason}</c> which indicates that the
- test case is skipped. A failure is specified as a crash, no matter
- what the crash reason is.
- </p>
- <p>As a test suite runs, all information (including output to
- stdout) is recorded in several different log files. A minimum of
- information is displayed to the user console. This only include
- start and stop information, plus a note for each failed test case.
- </p>
- <p>The result from each test case is recorded in an HTML log file
- which is created for each test run. Every test case gets one row
- in a table presenting total time, whether the case was successful
- or not, if it was skipped, and possibly also a comment. The HTML
- file has links to each test case's logfile, which may be viewed
- from e.g. Netscape or any other HTML capable browser.
- </p>
- <p>The Test Server consists of three parts:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>The part that executes the test suites and
- provides support for the test suite author is called
- <c>test_server</c>. This is described in the chapter about
- writing test cases in this user's guide, and in the reference
- manual for the <c>test_server</c> module.</item>
- <item>The controlling part, which provides the low level
- operator interface, starts and stops slave nodes and writes
- log files, is called
- <c>test_server_ctrl</c>. The Test Server Controller should not
- be used directly when running tests. Instead a framework built
- on top of it should be used. More information
- about how to write your own framework can be found
- in this user's guide and in the reference manual for the
- <c>test_server_ctrl</c> module.</item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Definition of terms</title>
- <taglist>
- <tag><em>conf(iguration) case</em></tag>
- <item>This is a group of test cases which need some specific
- configuration. A conf case contains an initiation function which
- sets up a specific configuration, one or more test cases using
- this configuration, and a cleanup function which restores the
- configuration. A conf case is specified in a test specification
- either like this:<c>{conf,InitFunc,ListOfCases,CleanupFunc}</c>,
- or this: <c>{conf,Properties,InitFunc,ListOfCases,CleanupFunc}</c>
- </item>
- <tag><em>datadir</em></tag>
- <item>Data directory for a test suite. This directory contains
- any files used by the test suite, e.g. additional erlang
- modules, c code or data files. If the data directory contains
- code which must be compiled before the test suite is run, it
- should also contain a makefile source called Makefile.src
- defining how to compile.
- </item>
- <tag><em>documentation clause</em></tag>
- <item>One of the function clauses in a test case. This clause
- shall return a list of strings describing what the test case
- tests.
- </item>
- <tag><em>execution clause</em></tag>
- <item>One of the function clauses in a test case. This clause
- implements the actual test case, i.e. calls the functions that
- shall be tested and checks results. The clause shall crash if it
- fails.
- </item>
- <tag><em>major log file</em></tag>
- <item>This is the test suites log file.
- </item>
- <tag><em>Makefile.src</em></tag>
- <item>This file is used by the test server framework to generate
- a makefile for a datadir. It contains some special characters
- which are replaced according to the platform currently tested.
- </item>
- <tag><em>minor log file</em></tag>
- <item>This is a separate log file for each test case.
- </item>
- <tag><em>privdir</em></tag>
- <item>Private directory for a test suite. This directory should
- be used when the test suite needs to write to files.
- </item>
- <tag><em>skip case</em></tag>
- <item>A test case which shall be skipped.
- </item>
- <tag><em>specification clause</em></tag>
- <item>One of the function clauses in a test case. This clause
- shall return an empty list, a test specification or
- <c>{skip,Reason}</c>. If an empty list is returned, it means
- that the test case shall be executed, and so it must also have
- an execution clause.
- </item>
- <tag><em>test case</em></tag>
- <item>A single test included in a test suite. Typically it tests
- one function in a module or application. A test case is
- implemented as a function in a test suite module. The function
- can have three clauses, the documentation-, specification- and
- execution clause.
- </item>
- <tag><em>test specification</em></tag>
- <item>A specification of which test suites and test cases to
- run. There can be test specifications on three different levels
- in a test. The top level is a test specification file which
- roughly specifies what to test for a whole application. Then
- there is a test specification for each test suite returned from
- the <c>all(suite)</c> function in the suite. And there can also
- be a test specification returned from the specification clause
- of a test case.
- </item>
- <tag><em>test specification file</em></tag>
- <item>This is a text file containing the test specification for
- an application. The file has the extension ".spec" or
- ".spec.Platform", where Platform is e.g. "vxworks".
- </item>
- <tag><em>test suite</em></tag>
- <item>An erlang module containing a collection of test cases for
- a specific application or module.
- </item>
- <tag><em>topcase</em></tag>
- <item>The first "command" in a test specification file. This
- command contains the test specification, like this:
- <c>{topcase,TestSpecification}</c></item>
- </taglist>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/book.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/book.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6eb7daae1a..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/book.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "book.dtd">
-
-<book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
- <header titlestyle="normal">
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date>2002-07-11</date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>book.xml</file>
- </header>
- <insidecover>
- </insidecover>
- <pagetext>Test Server</pagetext>
- <preamble>
- <contents level="2"></contents>
- </preamble>
- <parts lift="no">
- <xi:include href="part.xml"/>
- </parts>
- <applications>
- <xi:include href="ref_man.xml"/>
- </applications>
- <releasenotes>
- <xi:include href="notes.xml"/>
- </releasenotes>
- <listofterms></listofterms>
- <index></index>
-</book>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/example_chapter.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/example_chapter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ec152fdd6c..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/example_chapter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Examples</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>example_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test suite</title>
- <code type="none">
--module(my_SUITE).
-
--export([all/1,
- not_started/1, not_started_func1/1, not_started_func2/1,
- start/1, stop/1,
- func1/1, func2/1
- ]).
-
--export([init_per_testcase/2, end_per_testcase/2]).
-
--include("test_server.hrl").
-
--define(default_timeout, ?t:minutes(1)).
-
-init_per_testcase(_Case, Config) ->
- Dog=?t:timetrap(?default_timeout),
- [{watchdog, Dog}|Config].
-end_per_testcase(_Case, Config) ->
- Dog=?config(watchdog, Config),
- ?t:timetrap_cancel(Dog),
- ok.
-
-all(suite) ->
- %% Test specification on test suite level
- [not_started,
- {conf, start, [func1, func2], stop}].
-
-not_started(suite) ->
- %% Test specification on test case level
- [not_started_func1, not_started_func2];
-not_started(doc) ->
- ["Testing all functions when application is not started"].
-%% No execution clause unless the specification clause returns [].
-
-
-not_started_func1(suite) ->
- [];
-not_started_func1(doc) ->
- ["Testing function 1 when application is not started"].
-not_started_func1(Config) when list(Config) ->
- {error, not_started} = myapp:func1(dummy_ref,1),
- {error, not_started} = myapp:func1(dummy_ref,2),
- ok.
-
-not_started_func2(suite) ->
- [];
-not_started_func2(doc) ->
- ["Testing function 2 when application is not started"].
-not_started_func2(Config) when list(Config) ->
- {error, not_started} = myapp:func2(dummy_ref,1),
- {error, not_started} = myapp:func2(dummy_ref,2),
- ok.
-
-
-%% No specification clause needed for an init function in a conf case!!!
-start(doc) ->
- ["Testing start of my application."];
-start(Config) when list(Config) ->
- Ref = myapp:start(),
- case erlang:whereis(my_main_process) of
- Pid when pid(Pid) ->
- [{myapp_ref,Ref}|Config];
- undefined ->
- %% Since this is the init function in a conf case, the rest of the
- %% cases in the conf case will be skipped if this case fails.
- ?t:fail("my_main_process did not start")
- end.
-
-func1(suite) ->
- [];
-func1(doc) ->
- ["Test that func1 returns ok when argument is 1 and error if argument is 2"];
-func1(Config) when list(Config) ->
- Ref = ?config(myapp_ref,Config),
- ok = myapp:func1(Ref,1),
- error = myapp:func1(Ref,2),
- ok.
-
-func2(suite) ->
- [];
-func2(doc) ->
- ["Test that func1 returns ok when argument is 3 and error if argument is 4"];
-func2(Config) when list(Config) ->
- Ref = ?config(myapp_ref,Config),
- ok = myapp:func2(Ref,3),
- error = myapp:func2(Ref,4),
- ok.
-
-%% No specification clause needed for a cleanup function in a conf case!!!
-stop(doc) ->
- ["Testing termination of my application"];
-stop(Config) when list(Config) ->
- Ref = ?config(myapp_ref,Config),
- ok = myapp:stop(Ref),
- case erlang:whereis(my_main_process) of
- undefined ->
- lists:keydelete(myapp_ref,1,Config);
- Pid when pid(Pid) ->
- ?t:fail("my_main_process did not stop")
- end.
- </code>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test specification file</title>
- <p><em><c>myapp.spec:</c></em></p>
- <code type="none">
-{topcase, {dir, "../myapp_test"}}. % Test specification on top level </code>
- <p><em><c>myapp.spec.vxworks:</c></em></p>
- <code type="none">
-{topcase, {dir, "../myapp_test"}}. % Test specification on top level
-{skip,{my_SUITE,func2,"Not applicable on VxWorks"}}. </code>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/fascicules.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/fascicules.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 37feca543f..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/fascicules.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE fascicules SYSTEM "fascicules.dtd">
-
-<fascicules>
- <fascicule file="part" href="part_frame.html" entry="no">
- User's Guide
- </fascicule>
- <fascicule file="ref_man" href="ref_man_frame.html" entry="yes">
- Reference Manual
- </fascicule>
- <fascicule file="part_notes" href="part_notes_frame.html" entry="no">
- Release Notes
- </fascicule>
- <fascicule file="" href="../../../../doc/print.html" entry="no">
- Off-Print
- </fascicule>
-</fascicules>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b48bda94d0..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1694 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>APPLICATION Release Notes</title>
- <prepared>Peter Andersson</prepared>
- <responsible>Peter Andersson</responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date>2007-11-30</date>
- <rev>A</rev>
- <file>notes.xml</file>
- </header>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.9.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When generating Makefile from Makefile.src,
- ts_lib:get_arg/4 earlier removed all spaces in the
- extracted argument. The code was probably meant for
- removing leading and trailing spaces only, and is now
- corrected to do so.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-13015</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- With the Common Test 'create_priv_dir' start option set
- to 'auto_per_tc', the name of the priv directory for a
- configuration function could clash with the name of the
- priv directory for a test case, which would cause Test
- Server failure. This error has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-13181</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.9</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The status of an aborted test due to test suite
- compilation error has changed from 'auto_skipped' to
- 'failed'. This affects both the textual log file, event
- handling and CT hook callbacks. The logging of
- compilation failures has also been improved, especially
- in the case of multiple test suites failing compilation.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10816</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Test Server source code parser (erl2html2) failed to
- handle the macro tuple in the syntax tree returned by
- epp_dodger. This error has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12740</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Test Server application has been marked as obsolete
- and will be removed from OTP in the next major release
- (OTP 19.0).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10923 Aux Id: OTP-12705 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- When running OTP tests using the ts interface, it is now
- possible to specify so called test categories per OTP
- application. A test category is represented by a CT test
- specification and defines an arbitrary subset of existing
- test suites, groups and cases. Examples of test
- categories are 'smoke' (smoke tests) and 'bench'
- (benchmarks). (Call ts:help() for more info). Also,
- functions for reading terms from the current test
- specification during test, ct:get_testspec_terms/0 and
- ct:get_testspec_terms/1, have been implemented.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11962</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.8.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- If the last expression in a test case causes a timetrap
- timeout, the stack trace is ignored and not printed to
- the test case log file. This happens because the
- {Suite,TestCase,Line} info is not available in the stack
- trace in this scenario, due to tail call elimination.
- Common Test has been modified to handle this situation by
- inserting a {Suite,TestCase,last_expr} tuple in the
- correct place and printing the stack trace as expected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12697 Aux Id: seq12848 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.8</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When installing test suites in a cross compilation
- environment, ts_install was not able to read the values
- of the environment variables specified in the
- configuration file. This has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11441</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Printouts by means of ct:log/2/3 or ct:pal/2/3 from the
- hook functions on_tc_fail/2 and on_tc_skip/2 would (quite
- unexpectedly) end up in the "unexpected i/o" log file
- instead of in the test case log file. This behaviour has
- been changed so that now, all printouts (including stdio
- printouts) from these hook functions will be routed to
- the test case log file.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12468</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The format of the information printed on top of the test
- case (and configuration function) log file has been
- slightly modified, mainly in order to make the start
- configuration data easier to read and interpret.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12518 Aux Id: seq12808 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.7.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The source code to html code generator in Test Server
- (and Common Test) would fail to generate anchors in the
- html code for functions with non-expandable macros,
- resulting in bad html links to such functions. This
- correction lets the code generator ignore macros that
- can't be expanded (i.e. not pre-process them), so that
- correct anchors will always be produced.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11766 Aux Id: seq12556 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Make sure to install .hrl files when needed</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12197</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Distribute <c>autoconf</c> helpers to applications at
- build time instead of having multiple identical copies
- committed in the repository.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-12348</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.7.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The mechanism for running code cover analysis with
- common_test has been improved. Earlier, if a test run
- consisted of multiple tests, cover would be started and
- stopped for each test. This would give "intermediate"
- cover logs available from the "Coverage log" link on the
- test suite result pages. To accumulate cover data over
- all tests, the 'export' option had to be used in the
- cover spec file. This was not well documented, and the
- functionality was quite confusing.</p>
- <p>
- Using the 'nodes' option in the cover spec file would
- fail when the test run consisted of multiple tests, since
- the specified nodes would only be included in the cover
- analysis of the first test.</p>
- <p>
- The repeated compilation and analysis of the same modules
- was also very time consuming.</p>
- <p>
- To overcome these problems, ct will now only cover
- compile and analyze modules once per test run, i.e. once
- for each cover spec file. The log file is available via a
- new button on the top level index page. The old "Coverage
- log" links on the test suite result pages still exist,
- but they all point to the same log containing the
- accumulated result.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11971</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.7</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the
- following applications: </p>
- <p>
- <c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger,
- dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe,
- inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools,
- percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh,
- syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx,
- xmerl</c></p>
- <p>
- A new test utility for testing appup files is added to
- test_server. This is now used by most applications in
- OTP.</p>
- <p>
- (Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11744</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Calls to erlang:open_port/2 with 'spawn' are updated to
- handle space in the command path.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10842</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.6.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>The way Common Test handles skipping of test cases has
- been updated. In previous versions, returning
- <c>{skip,Reason}</c> from a configuration function (such
- as init_per_suite or init_per_group), resulted in all
- affected test cases getting skipped with status
- <c>auto_skipped</c>. This was inappropriate, since this
- status is supposed to be used to inform that Common Test
- has taken the initiative to skip something (e.g. a test
- case group if init_per_group failed). Therefore, in this
- version of Common Test, whenever the user skips a suite,
- group, or individual test case (by means of a
- configuration function or test specification term), the
- affected test cases get the status <c>user_skipped</c>
- instead.</p> <p>This update has meant a few changes that
- may affect Common Test users in various ways:</p> <list>
- <item>The test results and statistics will be affected,
- which is important to know when running regression tests
- and comparing results to previous test runs.</item>
- <item>Users that read or parse the textual log file
- <c>suite.log</c> will notice that an auto skipped
- function is now reported as <c>auto_skipped</c> rather
- than <c>skipped</c> as before.</item> <item>When
- <c>require</c> fails in an info function (such as suite/0
- or group/1), all affected configuration functions and
- test cases are marked as <c>auto_skipped</c>.</item>
- <item>If Common Test detects an error in the test suite
- (such as e.g. an invalid all/0 function), all affected
- configuration functions and test cases are marked as
- <c>auto_skipped</c>.</item> <item>If a repeated test run
- session reaches a deadline with <c>force_stop</c>
- enabled, all remaining test cases are marked as
- <c>auto_skipped</c> rather than <c>user_skipped</c> as
- before.</item> <item>The event messages that Common Test
- generates during test runs have been affected by this
- update. For details see OTP-11524.</item> </list>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11305 Aux Id: OTP-11524 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.6.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server installed an error handler (test_server_h)
- only to be able to write the name of the current test
- case to stdout whenever it received an error- or progress
- report. This functionality was not useful and has been
- removed. The built-in Common Test hook, cth_log_redirect,
- has instead been improved to now also tag all error- and
- progress reports in the log with suite-, group-, and/or
- test case name.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11263 Aux Id: seq12251 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A new log, the "Pre- and Post Test I/O Log", has been
- introduced, which makes it possible to capture error- and
- progress reports, as well as printouts made with ct:log/2
- and ct:pal/2, before and after a test run. (Some minor
- improvements of the logging system have been made at the
- same time). Links to the new log are found on the Common
- Test Framework Log page. The Common Test User's Guide has
- been updated with information about the new log and also
- with a new section on how to synchronize external
- applications with Common Test by means of the CT Hook
- init and terminate functions.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11272</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server: Report auto_skipped in major log.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11297</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.6.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Some unused code related to remote targets is removed,
- and documentation is updated.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10607 Aux Id: kunagi-338 [249] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A bug in test_server_gl caused io requests containing
- invalid data (i.e. not unicode:chardata()) to hang, since
- no io reply was sent. This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10991</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Common Test would, in case of timetrap error, print a
- warning in the log if end_per_testcase wasn't implemented
- in the suite, even though it's an optional function. This
- printout has been removed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-11052</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The '-force_stop' flag to use with time-limited repeats
- of test runs can now be used with a new 'skip_rest'
- option which causes the rest of the test cases in the
- ongoing test job to be skipped when the time limit is
- reached. E.g. 'ct_run -spec xxx -duration 010000
- -force_stop skip_rest'</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10856 Aux Id: OTP-10832 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.6.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The unicode update of test_server for R16A introduced a
- few potential errors when logging to files. Sometimes ~tp
- or ~ts was used for formatting also when writing to files
- that were not opened with the {encoding,utf8} option. If
- then the argument contained unicode characters above 255,
- the file descriptor would crash. This has been corrected
- by the following modifications:</p> <list> <item> Since the
- 'unexpected_io' log file is used only when the test case
- HTML file is not available (e.g. between test cases),
- this file is now also a HTML file and as other
- test_server HTML logs it is always UTF-8 encoded </item>
- <item> Since it is possible to change which information
- is going to which log file (with
- test_server_ctrl:set_levels/3), we do not have full
- control over which information is written to which file.
- This means that any printout could be written to the
- 'major' log file (suite.log), which was earlier encoded
- as latin1. To avoid crashing this file descriptor due to
- unicode strings, the 'major' log file is now also encoded
- in UTF-8 (possible incopatibility). </item> <item> The
- cross_cover.info file is no longer a text file which can
- be read with file:consult/1, instead it is written as a
- pure binary file using term_to_binary when writing and
- binary_to_term when reading. </item> <item> The encoding
- of the file named 'last_name', which only content is the
- path to the last run.&lt;timestamp&gt; directory, is now
- dependent on the file name mode of the VM. If file names
- are expected to be unicode, then the 'last_name' file is
- UTF-8 encoded, else it is latin1 encoded. </item> </list>
- <p>
- Also, ~tp has been changed back to ~p unless it is
- somehow likely that the argument includes strings. It is
- not obvious that this is the correct thing to do, but
- some decission had to be taken...</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10780</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Using the force_stop flag/option to interrupt a test run
- caused a crash in Common Test. This problem has been
- solved.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10832</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.6</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Line numbering of erlang files that were not correctly
- indented could be wrong after coverting to html with
- erl2html2:convert/[2,3] (the source code pointed to from
- the test case). This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Also, there are now link targets for each line and not
- only for each 10th line, and link targets for functions
- now include the arity and not only the function name
- (e.g. func/1 has a link target "func-1").</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9710 Aux Id: seq11945, kunagi-201 [112] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Severe errors detected by <c>test_server</c> (e.g. if log
- files directories cannot be created) will now be reported
- to <c>common_test</c> and noted in the <c>common_test</c>
- logs.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9769 Aux Id: kunagi-202 [113] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The earlier undocumented cross cover feature for
- accumulating cover data over multiple tests has now been
- fixed and documented.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9870 Aux Id: kunagi-206 [117] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If the test suite itself was included in code coverage
- analysis, then the test_server would not manage to set
- data_dir correctly for the test. This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9956 Aux Id: kunagi-207 [118] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Any call to test_server:break/1 should cancel all active
- timetramps. However, in some cases
- Suite:end_per_testcase/2 is executed on a different
- process than the test case itself, and if
- test_server:break/1 was called from there, the timetraps
- were not cancelled. This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10046 Aux Id: kunagi-174 [85] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>When a test case failed because of a timetrap time
- out, the <c>Config</c> data for the case was lost in the
- following call to <c>end_per_testcase/2</c>, and also in
- calls to the CT Hook function
- <c>post_end_per_testcase/4</c>. This problem has been
- solved and the <c>Config</c> data is now correctly passed
- to the above functions after a timetrap timeout
- failure.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10070 Aux Id: kunagi-175 [86] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>In test_server, the same process would supervise the
- currently running test case and be group leader (and IO
- server) for the test case. Furthermore, when running
- parallel test cases, new temporary supervisor/group
- leader processes were spawned and the process that was
- group leader for sequential test cases would not be
- active. That would lead to several problems:</p>
- <p>* Processes started by init_per_suite will inherit the
- group leader of the init_per_suite process (and that
- group leader would not process IO requests when parallel
- test cases was running). If later a parallel test case
- caused such a processto print using (for example)
- io:format/2, the calling would hang.</p>
- <p>* Similarly, if a process was spawned from a parallel
- test case, it would inherit the temporary group leader
- for that parallel test case. If that spawned process
- later - when the group of parallel tests have finished -
- attempted to print something, its group leader would be
- dead and there would be <c>badarg</c> exception.</p>
- <p>Those problems have been solved by having group
- leaders separate from the processes that supervises the
- test cases, and keeping temporary group leader process
- for parallel test cases alive until no more process in
- the system use them as group leaders.</p>
- <p>Also, a new <c>unexpected_io.log</c> log file
- (reachable from the summary page of each test suite) has
- been introduced. All unexpected IO will be printed into
- it(for example, IO to a group leader for a parallel test
- case that has finished).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10101 Aux Id: OTP-10125 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The stability of <c>common_test</c> and
- <c>test_server</c> when running test cases in parallel
- has been improved.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10480 Aux Id: kunagi-318 [229] </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Added a general framework for executing benchmarks of
- Erlang/OTP. Benchmarks for the Erlang VM and mnesia have
- been incorporated in the framework. </p>
- <p>
- For details about how to add more benchmarks see
- $ERL_TOP/HOWTO/BENCHMARKS.md in the source distribution.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10156</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Update common test modules to handle Unicode:</p> <list>
- <item> Use UTF-8 encoding for all HTML files, except the
- HTML version of the test suite generated with
- erl2html2:convert, which will have the same encoding as
- the original test suite (.erl) file. </item> <item>
- Encode link targets in HTML files with
- test_server_ctrl:uri_encode/1. </item> <item> Use unicode
- modifier 't' with ~s when appropriate. </item> <item> Use
- unicode:characters_to_list and
- unicode:characters_to_binary for conversion between
- binaries and strings instead of binary_to_list and
- list_to_binary. </item> </list>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.5.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- test_server_h will now recognize info_reports written by
- ct connection handlers (according to the description in
- cth_conn_log) and ignore them as they will be completely
- handled by by ct_conn_log_h.</p>
- <p>
- Earlier test_server_h would print a tag (testcase name)
- before forwarding the report to error_logger_tty_h. This
- would cause lots of tags in the log with no info report
- following (since error_logger_tty_h did not handle them).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10571</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Restore Config data if lost when test case fails.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10070 Aux Id: kunagi-175 [86] </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- IO server error in test_server.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10125 Aux Id: OTP-10101, kunagi-177 [88] </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.5.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The documentation has been updated with the latest
- changes for the test_server_ctrl:report/2 function.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10086 Aux Id: seq12066 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The ct:get_status/0 function failed to report status if a
- parallel test case group was running at the time of the
- call. This has been fixed and the return value for the
- function has been updated. Please see the ct reference
- manual for details.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10172</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to sort the HTML tables by clicking on
- the header elements. In order to reset a sorted table,
- the browser window should simply be refreshed. This
- feature requires that the browser supports javascript,
- and has javascript execution enabled. If the 'ct_run
- -basic_html' flag is used, no javascript code is included
- in the generated HTML code.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9896 Aux Id: seq12034, OTP-9835 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Verbosity levels for log printouts has been added. This
- makes it possible to specify preferred verbosity for
- different categories of log printouts, as well as general
- printouts (such as standard IO), to allow control over
- which strings get printed and which get ignored. New
- versions of the Common Test logging functions, ct:log,
- ct:pal and ct:print, have been introduced, with a new
- Importance argument added. The Importance value is
- compared to the verbosity level at runtime. More
- information can be found in the chapter about Logging in
- the Common Test User's Guide.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10067 Aux Id: seq12050 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Erlang/OTP test runner ts has been extended to allow
- cross compilation of test suites. To cross compile the
- test suites first follow the normal cross compilation
- procedures and release the tests on the build host. Then
- install ts using an xcomp specification file and compile
- test suites using ts:compile_testcases/0. For more
- details see $ERL_TOP/xcomp/README.md.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-10074</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.5.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- After a test case timeout or abortion, the
- end_per_testcase function executes on a new dedicated
- process. The group leader for this process should be set
- to the IO server for the test case, which was not done
- properly. The result of this error was that no warnings
- about end_per_testcase failing or timing out were ever
- printed in the test case log. Also, help functions such
- as e.g. test_server:stop_node/1, attempting to
- synchronize with the IO server, would hang. The fault has
- been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9666</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A deadlock situation could occur if Common Test is
- forwarding error_handler printouts to Test Server at the
- same time a new test case is starting. This error has
- been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9894</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- When a test case was killed because of a timetrap
- timeout, the current location (suite, case and line) was
- not printed correctly in the log files. This has been
- corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9930 Aux Id: seq12002 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server and Common Test would add new error handlers
- with each test run and fail to remove previously added
- ones. In the case of Test Server, this would only happen
- if SASL was not running on the test node. This has been
- fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9941 Aux Id: seq12009 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If a test case process was terminated due to an exit
- signal from a linked process, Test Server failed to
- report the correct name of the suite and case to the
- framework. This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9958 Aux Id: OTP-9855 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A new optional feature has been introduced that enables
- Common Test to generate priv_dir directory names that are
- unique for each test case or config function. The name of
- the option/flag is 'create_priv_dir' and it can be set to
- value 'auto_per_run' (which is the default, existing,
- behaviour), or 'auto_per_tc' or 'manual_per_tc'. If
- 'auto_per_tc' is used, Test Server creates a dedicated
- priv_dir automatically for each test case (which can be
- very expensive in case of many and/or repeated cases). If
- 'manual_per_tc' is used, the user needs to create the
- priv_dir explicitly by calling the new function
- ct:make_priv_dir/0.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9659 Aux Id: seq11930 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A column for test case group name has been added to the
- suite overview HTML log file.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9730 Aux Id: seq11952 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to use the post_end_per_testcase CT
- hook function to print a comment for a test case in the
- overview log file, even if the test case gets killed by a
- timetrap or unknown exit signal, or if the
- end_per_testcase function times out.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9855 Aux Id: seq11979 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Common Test will now print error information (with a time
- stamp) in the test case log file immediately when a test
- case fails. This makes it easier to see when, in time,
- the fault actually occured, and aid the job of locating
- relevant trace and debug printouts in the log.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9904 Aux Id: seq11985, OTP-9900 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server has been modified to check the SASL
- errlog_type parameter when receiving an error logger
- event, so that it doesn't print reports of type that the
- user has disabled.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9955 Aux Id: seq12013 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If an application cannot be found by ts it is
- automatically skipped when testing.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9971</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- By specifying a user defined function ({M,F,A} or fun) as
- timetrap value, either by means of an info function or by
- calling ct:timetrap/1, it is now possible to set a
- timetrap that will be triggered when the user function
- returns.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9988 Aux Id: OTP-9501, seq11894 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If the optional configuration functions init_per_suite/1
- and end_per_suite/1 are not implemented in the test
- suite, local Common Test versions of these functions are
- called instead, and will be displayed in the overview log
- file. Any printouts made by the pre- or
- post_init_per_suite and pre- or post_end_per_suite hook
- functions are saved in the log files for these functions.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9992</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.5</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The test case group info function has been implemented in
- Common Test. Before execution of a test case group, a
- call is now made to <c>TestSuite:group(GroupName)</c>.
- The function returns a list of test properties, e.g. to
- specify timetrap values, require configuration data, etc
- (analogue to the test suite- and test case info
- function). The scope of the properties set by
- <c>group(GroupName)</c> is all test cases and sub-groups
- of group <c>GroupName</c>.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9235</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The look of the HTML log files generated by Common Test
- and Test Server has been improved (and made easier to
- customize) by means of a CSS file.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9706</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Fix problems in CT/TS due to line numbers in exceptions.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9203</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4.5</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- An error in how comments are colored in the test suite
- overview html log file has been corrected. As result, a
- new framework callback function, format_comment/1, has
- been introduced.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9237</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server did not release SASL TTY handlers
- (sasl_report_tty_h and error_logger_tty_h) properly after
- each test run. This error has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9311</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Automatically generated init- and end-configuration
- functions for test case groups caused incorrect execution
- order of test cases. This has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9369</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If ct:log/2 was called with bad arguments, this could
- cause the Common Test IO handling process to crash. This
- fault has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9371 Aux Id: OTP-8933 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A bug has been fixed that made Test Server call the
- end_tc/3 framework function with an incorrect module name
- as first argument.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9379 Aux Id: seq11863 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If end_per_testcase caused a timetrap timeout, the actual
- test case status was discarded and the test case logged
- as successful (even if the case had actually failed
- before the call to end_per_testcase). This fault has been
- fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9397</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If a timetrap timeout occured during execution of of a
- function in a lib module (i.e. a function called directly
- or indirectly from a test case), the Suite argument in
- the end_tc/3 framework callback function would not
- correctly contain the name of the test suite, but the lib
- module. (This would only happen if the lib module was
- compiled with ct.hrl included). This error has been
- solved.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9398</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Add a proplist() type</p>
- <p>
- Recently I was adding specs to an API and found that
- there is no canonical proplist() type defined. (Thanks to
- Ryan Zezeski)</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9499</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p> XML files have been corrected. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If a test suite would start with a test case group
- defined without the init_per_group/2 and end_per_group/2
- function, init_per_suite/1 would not execute initially
- and logging of the test run would fail. This error has
- been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9584</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- A new option, 'logopts', has been introduced, to make it
- possible to modify some aspects of the logging behaviour
- in Common Test (or Test Server). For example, whenever an
- io printout is made, test_server adds newline (\n) to the
- end of the output string. This may not always be a
- preferred action and can therefore be disabled by means
- of "ct_run ... -logopts no_nl" (or ct:run_test([...,
- {logopts,[no_nl]}])). A new framework callback function,
- get_logopts/0, has been introduced (see the ct_framework
- module for details).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9372 Aux Id: OTP-9396 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A new option, 'logopts', has been introduced, to make it
- possible to modify some aspects of the logging behaviour
- in Common Test (or Test Server). For example, if the html
- version of the test suite source code should not be
- generated during the test run (and consequently be
- unavailable in the log file system), the feature may be
- disabled by means of "ct_run ... -logopts no_src" (or
- ct:run_test([..., {logopts,[no_src]}])). A new framework
- callback function, get_logopts/0, has been introduced
- (see the ct_framework module for details).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9396 Aux Id: seq11869, OTP-9372 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to use a tuple {M,F,A}, or a fun, as
- timetrap specification in the suite info function or test
- case info functions. The function must return a valid
- timeout value, as documented in the common_test man page
- and in the User's Guide.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9501 Aux Id: seq11894 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- It was previously not possible to use timetrap value
- 'infinity' with ct:timetrap/1. This has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9159</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- A bug that made it impossible to cancel the previous
- timetrap when calling ct:timetrap/1 has been corrected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9233 Aux Id: OTP-9159 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When running tests with auto-compilation disabled, Common
- Test could only display the test suite source code on
- html format in the test case log if the source file was
- located in the same directory as the pre-compiled suite.
- This has been modified so that Common Test now tries to
- locate the source file by means of the test suite module
- info (Suite:module_info/1). As a result, a suite may now
- be compiled to a different output directory (e.g.
- $MYTEST/bin) than the source code directory (e.g.
- $MYTEST/src), without the source-code-to-html generation
- being affected.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9138</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to return a tuple {fail,Reason} from
- init_per_testcase/2. The result is that the associated
- test case gets logged as failed without ever executing.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9160 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Added DragonflyBSD check in test_server configure.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9249</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Updated the ts*.config files to contain information
- relevant to testing Erlang/OTP in an open source
- environment.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-9017</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Alpha release of Common Test Hooks (CTH). CTHs allow the
- users of common test to abtract out common behaviours
- from test suites in a much more elegant and flexible way
- than was possible before. Note that the addition of this
- feature may introduce minor changes in the undocumented
- behaviour of the interface inbetween common_test and
- test_server.</p>
- <p>
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8851</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>Miscellaneous updates</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8976</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Returning {return_group_result,failed} from end_per_group
- in a group that is part of a sequence, did not cause the
- proceeding cases (or groups) to get skipped. This has
- been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8753 Aux Id: seq11644 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Common Test has been updated to handle start options and
- test specification terms for test case groups (and test
- cases in groups). Also, an option named 'label', has been
- added that associates the test run with a name that
- Common Test prints in the overview HTML logs.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8725 Aux Id: OTP-8727 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to skip all tests in a suite, or a
- group, by returning {fail,Reason} from the end_tc/5
- framework function for init_per_suite, or init_per_group.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8805 Aux Id: seq11664 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Returning {fail,Reason} from the framework end_tc
- function was not handled properly by Test Server for all
- test suite functions.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8492 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- If the framework end_tc function would hang and get
- aborted by Test Server, there was no indication of
- failure in the logs. This has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8682 Aux Id: seq11504 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible for the Test Server framework end_tc
- function to change the status of the test case from ok or
- auto-skipped to failed by returning {fail,Reason}.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8495 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server will now call the end_per_testcase/2 function
- even if the test case has been terminated explicitly
- (with abort_current_testcase/1), or after a timetrap
- timeout. Under these circumstances the return value of
- end_per_testcase is completely ignored. Therefore the
- function will not be able to change the reason for test
- case termination by returning {fail,Reason}, nor will it
- be able to save data with {save_config,Data}.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8500 Aux Id: seq11521 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Previously, a repeat property of a test case group
- specified the number of times the group should be
- repeated after the main test run. I.e. {repeat,N} would
- case the group to execute 1+N times. To be consistent
- with the behaviour of the run_test repeat option, this
- has been changed. N now specifies the absolute number of
- executions instead.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8689 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.6</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Test Server parse transform did not handle bit string
- comprehensions. This has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8458 Aux Id: OTP-8311 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The tc_status value in the Config list for a test case
- that has failed because of a timetrap timeout, has
- changed from {tc_status,timeout} to
- {tc_status,timetrap_timeout}.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8302</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The documentation is now possible to build in an open
- source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and
- some features are added in the documentation build
- process. </p>
- <p>- The arity calculation is updated.</p>
- <p>- The module prefix used in the function names for
- bif's are removed in the generated links so the links
- will look like
- "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2"
- instead of
- "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".</p>
- <p>- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html
- documentation when a new page is loaded.</p>
- <p>- A number of corrections in the generation of man
- pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
- <p>- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so
- OTP's build process can be used for non OTP
- applications.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8343</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.5</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- If the init_per_testcase/2 function fails, the test case
- now gets marked and counted as auto skipped, not user
- skipped (which would previously happen).</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8289</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The documentation is now built with open source tools
- (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
- visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to fail a test case from the
- end_per_testcase/2 function, by returning {fail,Reason}.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8284</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible to fail a test case by having the
- end_tc/3 framework function return {fail,Reason} for the
- test case.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8285</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The test_server framework API (e.g. the end_tc/3
- function) has been modified. See the test_server_ctrl
- documentation for details.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8286 Aux Id: OTP-8285, OTP-8287 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When running a suite starting with a test case group,
- Test Server crashed if init_per_suite/1 exited or
- returned skip. This has been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8105 Aux Id: OTP-8089 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Various updates and fixes in Common Test and Test Server.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8045 Aux Id: OTP-8089,OTP-8105,OTP-8163 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Errors in coverage data collection and analysis were
- difficult to detect. The logging has been improved so
- that more information about e.g. imported and missing
- modules is printed to the html log files.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8163 Aux Id: seq11374 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Common Test HTML overview pages have been improved.
- It is now possible to see if a test case has been skipped
- explicitly or because a configuration function has
- failed. Also, the history page (all_runs.html) now has
- scrolling text displaying the test names. The old format
- (showing names as a truncated string) can still be
- generated by means of the flag/option 'basic_html'.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-8177</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Various corrections and improvements of Common Test and
- Test Server.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7981</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Minor updates and corrections.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7897</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The conf case in Test Server has been extended with
- properties that make it possible to execute test cases in
- parallel, in sequence and in shuffled order. It is now
- also possible to repeat test cases according to different
- criterias. The properties can be combined, making it
- possible to e.g. repeat a conf case a certain number of
- times and execute the test cases in different (random)
- order every time. The properties are specified in a list
- in the conf case definition: {conf, Properties, InitCase,
- TestCases, EndCase}. The available properties are:
- parallel, sequence, shuffle, repeat, repeat_until_all_ok,
- repeat_until_any_ok, repeat_until_any_fail,
- repeat_until_all_fail.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7511 Aux Id: OTP-7839 </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The test server starts Cover on nodes of the same
- version as the test server itself only.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7699</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- The Erlang mode for Emacs has been updated with new and
- modified skeletons for Common Test and TS. Syntax for
- test case groups in Common Test (and conf cases with
- properties in TS) has been added and a new minimal Common
- Test suite skeleton has been introduced.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7856</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.4.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- The step functionality in Common Test (based on
- interaction with Debugger) was broken. This has been
- fixed, and some new step features have also been added.
- Please see the Common Test User's Guide for details.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7800 Aux Id: seq11106 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.4</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Miscellaneous updates.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7527</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.3</title>
-
- <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When a testcase terminated due to a timetrap, io sent to
- the group leader from framework:end_tc/3 (using
- ct:pal/2/3 or ct:log/2/3) would cause deadlock. This has
- been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7447 Aux Id: seq11010 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Various updates and improvements, plus some minor bug
- fixes, have been implemented in Common Test and Test
- Server.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7112</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- It is now possible, by means of the new function
- ct:abort_current_testcase/1 or
- test_server_ctrl:abort_current_testcase/1, to abort the
- currently executing test case.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7518 Aux Id: OTP-7112 </p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.2</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p><c>erlang:system_info/1</c> now accepts the
- <c>logical_processors</c>, and <c>debug_compiled</c>
- arguments. For more info see the, <c>erlang(3)</c>
- documentation.</p> <p>The scale factor returned by
- <c>test_server:timetrap_scale_factor/0</c> is now also
- effected if the emulator uses a larger amount of
- scheduler threads than the amount of logical processors
- on the system. </p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7175</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.1</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- When init_per_suite or end_per_suite terminated due to
- runtime failure, test_server failed to format the line
- number information properly and crashed. This error has
- now been fixed.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-7091</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Test_Server 3.2.0</title>
-
- <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Test Server is a portable test server for automated
- application testing. The server can run test suites on
- local or remote targets and log progress and results to
- HTML pages. The main purpose of Test Server is to act as
- engine inside customized test tools. A callback interface
- for such framework applications is provided.</p>
- <p>
- Own Id: OTP-6989</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-
-</section>
-
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes_history.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ca7880d74f..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes_history.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Release Notes History</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test Server 3.1.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and new features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Added functions <c>test_server:break/1</c> and
- <c>test_server:continue/0</c> for semiautomatic testing.</p>
- <p><c>test_server:timetrap/1</c> can now also take
- <c>{hours,H} | {minutes,M | {seconds,S}</c>.</p>
- <p>Added function
- <c>test_server_ctrl:multiply_timetraps/1</c>,
- <c>test_server_ctrl:add_case/3</c>,
- <c>test_server_ctrl:add_cases/2/3</c>.</p>
- <p>Added test suite functions <c>init_per_suite/1</c> and
- <c>end_per_suite/1</c>.</p>
- <p><c>fin_per_testcase/2</c> is changed to
- <c>end_per_testcase/2</c>. <c>fin_per_testcase</c> is kept
- for backwards compatibility.</p>
- <p>Added support for writing own test server frameworks.
- Callback functions <c>init_tc/1</c>, <c>end_tc/3</c>,
- <c>get_suite/2</c>, <c>report/2</c>, <c>warn/1</c>.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test Server 3.1</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>Added the options <c>cover</c> and <c>cover_details</c>
- to <c>ts:run</c>. When one of these options is used,
- the tested application will be cover compiled
- before the test is run. The cover compiled code will also
- be loaded on all slave or peer nodes started with
- <c>test_server:start_node</c>. When the test is completed
- coverage data from all nodes is collected and merged, and
- presented in the coverage log to which there will be a link
- from the test suite result page (i.e. the one with the
- heading "Test suite ... results").</p>
- <p>The <c>cover_details</c> option will do
- <c>cover:analyse_to_file</c> for each cover compiled module,
- while the <c>cover</c> option only will produce a list of
- modules and the number of covered/uncovered lines in each
- module.</p>
- <p>To make it possible to run all test from a script (like in
- the OTP daily builds), the following is added:
- <c>ts:run([all_tests | Options])</c>.</p>
- <p>This means that e.g. the following is possible:
- <c>erl -s ts run all_tests batch cover</c>.</p>
- <p>Note that it is also possible to run tests with cover even
- if you don't use <c>ts</c>.
- See <c>test_server_ctrl:cover/2/3</c>.</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-4703</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Removed module <c>ts_save.erl</c> and function
- <c>ts:save/0/1</c><em>(incompatible)</em>.</p>
- <p>Added config variable <c>ipv6_hosts</c> to
- <c>ts:install/1</c> and test spec file.</p>
- <p>No longer removing duplicates of test cases from test spec
- <em>(incompatible)</em>.</p>
- <p>Added function <c>test_server:run_on_shielded_node/2</c>.</p>
- <p>Creation of html files for test suite source does no longer
- crash if suite contains more than 9999 lines of code.</p>
- <p>Added functionality for cross cover compilation,
- i.e. collection of cover data from all tests.</p>
- <p>Multiplying timetrap times with 10 when running with cover.</p>
- <p>Added <c>ts:r/3</c> for running tests with cover.</p>
- <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
- <p>Own Id: OTP-5040</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/part.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 685ed16a94..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE part SYSTEM "part.dtd">
-
-<part xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server User's Guide</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date>2002-07-11</date>
- <rev></rev>
- </header>
- <description>
- <p><em>Test Server</em> is a portable test server for
- automated application testing. The server can run test suites
- and log progress and results to HTML
- pages. The main purpose of Test Server is to act as engine
- inside customized test tools. A callback interface for
- such framework applications is provided.</p>
- </description>
- <xi:include href="basics_chapter.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="test_spec_chapter.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="write_test_chapter.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="run_test_chapter.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="write_framework_chapter.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="example_chapter.xml"/>
-</part>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8cb9b6c591..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE part SYSTEM "part.dtd">
-
-<part xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Release Notes</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- </header>
- <description>
- <p>The <em>Test Server</em> is a portable test server for
- application testing. The test server can run automatic test suites
- and log progress and results to HTML
- pages. It also provides some support for test suite authors.</p>
- <p>For information about older versions, see
- <url href="part_notes_history_frame.html">Release Notes History</url>.</p>
- </description>
- <xi:include href="notes.xml"/>
-</part>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 468b5aa8ba..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/part_notes_history.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE part SYSTEM "part.dtd">
-
-<part>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Release Notes History</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- </header>
- <description>
- <p>The <em>Test Server</em> is a portable test server for
- application testing. The test server can run automatic test suites
- and log progress and results to HTML
- pages. It also provides some support for test suite authors.</p>
- </description>
- <include file="notes_history"></include>
-</part>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/ref_man.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/ref_man.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b06d9750b..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/ref_man.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE application SYSTEM "application.dtd">
-
-<application xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Reference Manual</title>
- <prepared></prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>ref_man.xml</file>
- </header>
- <description>
- <p><em>Test Server</em> is a portable test server for
- automated application testing. The server can run test suites
- and log progress and results to HTML
- pages. The main purpose of Test Server is to act as engine
- inside customized test tools. A callback interface for
- such framework applications is provided.</p>
- </description>
- <xi:include href="test_server_app.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="test_server_ctrl.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="test_server.xml"/>
-</application>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index cb5b29c993..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Running Test Suites</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>run_test_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Using the test server controller</title>
- <p>The test server controller provides a low level interface to
- all the Test Server functionality. It is possible to use this
- interface directly, but it is recommended to use a framework
- such as <em>Common Test</em> instead. If no existing framework
- suits your needs, you could of course build your own
- on top of the test server controller. Some information about how
- to do this can be found in the section named "Writing you own
- test server framework" in the Test Server User's Guide.
- </p>
- <p>For information about using the controller directly, please see
- all available functions in the reference manual for
- <c>test_server_ctrl</c>.
- </p>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 96ff6de3ba..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,853 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
-
-<erlref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2007</year>
- <year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>test_server</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <responsible></responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>test_server_ref.sgml</file>
- </header>
- <module>test_server</module>
- <modulesummary>This module provides support for test suite authors.</modulesummary>
- <description>
- <p>The <c>test_server</c> module aids the test suite author by providing
- various support functions. The supported functionality includes:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Logging and timestamping
- </item>
- <item>Capturing output to stdout
- </item>
- <item>Retrieving and flushing the message queue of a process
- </item>
- <item>Watchdog timers, process sleep, time measurement and unit
- conversion
- </item>
- <item>Private scratch directory for all test suites
- </item>
- <item>Start and stop of slave- or peer nodes</item>
- </list>
- <p>For more information on how to write test cases and for
- examples, please see the Test Server User's Guide.
- </p>
- </description>
-
- <section>
- <title>TEST SUITE SUPPORT FUNCTIONS</title>
- <p>The following functions are supposed to be used inside a test
- suite.
- </p>
- </section>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>os_type() -> OSType</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the OS type of the target node</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>OSType = term()</v>
- <d>This is the same as returned from <c>os:type/0</c></d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is equivalent to <c>os:type/0</c>. It is kept
- for backwards compatibility.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>fail()</name>
- <name>fail(Reason)</name>
- <fsummary>Makes the test case fail.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- <d>The reason why the test case failed.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This will make the test suite fail with a given reason, or
- with <c>suite_failed</c> if no reason was given. Use this
- function if you want to terminate a test case, as this will
- make it easier to read the log- and HTML files. <c>Reason</c>
- will appear in the comment field in the HTML log.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>timetrap(Timout) -> Handle</name>
- <fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Timeout = integer() | {hours,H} | {minutes,M} | {seconds,S}</v>
- <v>H = M = S = integer()</v>
- <v>Pid = pid()</v>
- <d>The process that is to be timetrapped (<c>self()</c>by default)</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Sets up a time trap for the current process. An expired
- timetrap kills the process with reason
- <c>timetrap_timeout</c>. The returned handle is to be given
- as argument to <c>timetrap_cancel</c> before the timetrap
- expires. If <c>Timeout</c> is an integer, it is expected to
- be milliseconds.</p>
- <note>
- <p>If the current process is trapping exits, it will not be killed
- by the exit signal with reason <c>timetrap_timeout</c>.
- If this happens, the process will be sent an exit signal
- with reason <c>kill</c> 10 seconds later which will kill the
- process. Information about the timetrap timeout will in
- this case not be found in the test logs. However, the
- error_logger will be sent a warning.</p>
- </note>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>timetrap_cancel(Handle) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Cancels a timetrap.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Handle = term()</v>
- <d>Handle returned from <c>timetrap</c></d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function cancels a timetrap. This must be done before
- the timetrap expires.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>timetrap_scale_factor() -> ScaleFactor</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the scale factor for timeouts.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>ScaleFactor = integer()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function returns the scale factor by which all timetraps
- are scaled. It is normally 1, but can be greater than 1 if
- the test_server is running <c>cover</c>, using a larger amount of
- scheduler threads than the amount of logical processors on the
- system, running under purify, valgrind or in a debug-compiled
- emulator. The scale factor can be used if you need to scale you
- own timeouts in test cases with same factor as the test_server
- uses.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>sleep(MSecs) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Suspens the calling task for a specified time.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>MSecs = integer() | float() | infinity</v>
- <d>The number of milliseconds to sleep</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function suspends the calling process for at least the
- supplied number of milliseconds. There are two major reasons
- why you should use this function instead of
- <c>timer:sleep</c>, the first being that the module
- <c>timer</c> may be unavailable at the time the test suite is
- run, and the second that it also accepts floating point
- numbers.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>adjusted_sleep(MSecs) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Suspens the calling task for a specified time.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>MSecs = integer() | float() | infinity</v>
- <d>The default number of milliseconds to sleep</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function suspends the calling process for at least the
- supplied number of milliseconds. The function behaves the same
- way as <c>test_server:sleep/1</c>, only <c>MSecs</c>
- will be multiplied by the 'multiply_timetraps' value, if set,
- and also automatically scaled up if 'scale_timetraps' is set
- to true (which it is by default).</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>hours(N) -> MSecs</name>
- <name>minutes(N) -> MSecs</name>
- <name>seconds(N) -> MSecs</name>
- <fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>N = integer()</v>
- <d>Value to convert to milliseconds.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Theese functions convert <c>N</c> number of hours, minutes
- or seconds into milliseconds.
- </p>
- <p>Use this function when you want to
- <c>test_server:sleep/1</c> for a number of seconds, minutes or
- hours(!).</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>format(Format) -> ok</name>
- <name>format(Format, Args)</name>
- <name>format(Pri, Format)</name>
- <name>format(Pri, Format, Args)</name>
- <fsummary></fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Format = string()</v>
- <d>Format as described for <c>io_:format</c>.</d>
- <v>Args = list()</v>
- <d>List of arguments to format.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Formats output just like <c>io:format</c> but sends the
- formatted string to a logfile. If the urgency value,
- <c>Pri</c>, is lower than some threshold value, it will also
- be written to the test person's console. Default urgency is
- 50, default threshold for display on the console is 1.
- </p>
- <p>Typically, the test person don't want to see everything a
- test suite outputs, but is merely interested in if the test
- cases succeeded or not, which the test server tells him. If he
- would like to see more, he could manually change the threshold
- values by using the <c>test_server_ctrl:set_levels/3</c>
- function.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>capture_start() -> ok</name>
- <name>capture_stop() -> ok</name>
- <name>capture_get() -> list()</name>
- <fsummary>Captures all output to stdout for a process.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>These functions makes it possible to capture all output to
- stdout from a process started by the test suite. The list of
- characters captured can be purged by using <c>capture_get</c>.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>messages_get() -> list()</name>
- <fsummary>Empty the message queue.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This function will empty and return all the messages
- currently in the calling process' message queue.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>timecall(M, F, A) -> {Time, Value}</name>
- <fsummary>Measures the time needed to call a function.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>M = atom()</v>
- <d>The name of the module where the function resides.</d>
- <v>F = atom()</v>
- <d>The name of the function to call in the module.</d>
- <v>A = list()</v>
- <d>The arguments to supply the called function.</d>
- <v>Time = integer()</v>
- <d>The number of seconds it took to call the function.</d>
- <v>Value = term()</v>
- <d>Value returned from the called function.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function measures the time (in seconds) it takes to
- call a certain function. The function call is <em>not</em>
- caught within a catch.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>do_times(N, M, F, A) -> ok</name>
- <name>do_times(N, Fun)</name>
- <fsummary>Calls MFA or Fun N times.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>N = integer()</v>
- <d>Number of times to call MFA.</d>
- <v>M = atom()</v>
- <d>Module name where the function resides.</d>
- <v>F = atom()</v>
- <d>Function name to call.</d>
- <v>A = list()</v>
- <d>Arguments to M:F.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Calls MFA or Fun N times. Useful for extensive testing of a
- sensitive function.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>m_out_of_n(M, N, Fun) -> ok | exit({m_out_of_n_failed, {R,left_to_do}}</name>
- <fsummary>Fault tolerant <c>do_times</c>.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>N = integer()</v>
- <d>Number of times to call the Fun.</d>
- <v>M = integer()</v>
- <d>Number of times to require a successful return.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Repeatedly evaluates the given function until it succeeds
- (doesn't crash) M times. If, after N times, M successful
- attempts have not been accomplished, the process crashes with
- reason {m_out_of_n_failed, {R,left_to_do}}, where R indicates
- how many cases that was still to be successfully completed.
- </p>
- <p>For example:
- </p>
- <p><c>m_out_of_n(1,4,fun() -> tricky_test_case() end)</c> <br></br>
-Tries to run tricky_test_case() up to 4 times, and is
- happy if it succeeds once.
- </p>
- <p><c>m_out_of_n(7,8,fun() -> clock_sanity_check() end)</c> <br></br>
-Tries running clock_sanity_check() up to 8 times,and
- allows the function to fail once. This might be useful if
- clock_sanity_check/0 is known to fail if the clock crosses an
- hour boundary during the test (and the up to 8 test runs could
- never cross 2 boundaries)</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>call_crash(M, F, A) -> Result</name>
- <name>call_crash(Time, M, F, A) -> Result</name>
- <name>call_crash(Time, Crash, M, F, A) -> Result</name>
- <fsummary>Calls MFA and succeeds if it crashes.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Result = ok | exit(call_crash_timeout) | exit({wrong_crash_reason, Reason})</v>
- <v>Crash = term()</v>
- <d>Crash return from the function.</d>
- <v>Time = integer()</v>
- <d>Timeout in milliseconds.</d>
- <v>M = atom()</v>
- <d>Module name where the function resides.</d>
- <v>F = atom()</v>
- <d>Function name to call.</d>
- <v>A = list()</v>
- <d>Arguments to M:F.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Spawns a new process that calls MFA. The call is considered
- successful if the call crashes with the gives reason
- (<c>Crash</c>) or any reason if not specified. The call must
- terminate within the given time (default <c>infinity</c>), or
- it is considered a failure.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>temp_name(Stem) -> Name</name>
- <fsummary>Returns a unique filename.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Stem = string()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Returns a unique filename starting with <c>Stem</c> with
- enough extra characters appended to make up a unique
- filename. The filename returned is guaranteed not to exist in
- the filesystem at the time of the call.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>break(Comment) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Cancel all timetraps and wait for call to continue/0.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p><c>Comment</c> is a string which will be written in
- the shell, e.g. explaining what to do.</p>
- <p>This function will cancel all timetraps and pause the
- execution of the test case until the user executes the
- <c>continue/0</c> function. It gives the user the opportunity
- to interact with the erlang node running the tests, e.g. for
- debugging purposes or for manually executing a part of the
- test case.</p>
- <p>When the <c>break/1</c> function is called, the shell will
- look something like this:</p>
- <code type="none"><![CDATA[
- --- SEMIAUTOMATIC TESTING ---
- The test case executes on process <0.51.0>
-
-
- "Here is a comment, it could e.g. instruct to pull out a card"
-
-
- -----------------------------
-
- Continue with --> test_server:continue(). ]]></code>
- <p>The user can now interact with the erlang node, and when
- ready call <c>test_server:continue().</c></p>
- <p>Note that this function can not be used if the test is
- executed with <c>ts:run/0/1/2/3/4</c> in <c>batch</c> mode.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>continue() -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Continue after break/1.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This function must be called in order to continue after a
- test case has called <c>break/1</c>.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>run_on_shielded_node(Fun, CArgs) -> term()</name>
- <fsummary>Execute a function a shielded node.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Fun = function() (arity 0)</v>
- <d>Function to execute on the shielded node.</d>
- <v>CArg = string()</v>
- <d>Extra command line arguments to use when starting the shielded node.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p><c>Fun</c> is executed in a process on a temporarily created
- hidden node with a proxy for communication with the test server
- node. The node is called a shielded node (should have been called
- a shield node). If <c>Fun</c> is successfully executed, the result
- is returned. A peer node (see <c>start_node/3</c>) started from
- the shielded node will be shielded from test server node, i.e.
- they will not be aware of each other. This is useful when you want
- to start nodes from earlier OTP releases than the OTP release of
- the test server node.</p>
- <p>Nodes from an earlier OTP release can normally not be started
- if the test server hasn't been started in compatibility mode
- (see the <c>+R</c> flag in the <c>erl(1)</c> documentation) of
- an earlier release. If a shielded node is started in compatibility
- mode of an earlier OTP release than the OTP release of the test
- server node, the shielded node can start nodes of an earlier OTP
- release.</p>
- <note>
- <p>You <em>must</em> make sure that nodes started by the shielded
- node never communicate directly with the test server node.</p>
- </note>
- <note>
- <p>Slave nodes always communicate with the test server node;
- therefore, <em>never</em> start <em>slave nodes</em> from the
- shielded node, <em>always</em> start <em>peer nodes</em>.</p>
- </note>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>start_node(Name, Type, Options) -> {ok, Node} | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Start a node.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Name = atom() | string()</v>
- <d>Name of the slavenode to start (as given to -sname or -name)</d>
- <v>Type = slave | peer</v>
- <d>The type of node to start.</d>
- <v>Options = [{atom(), term()]</v>
- <d>Tuplelist of options</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This functions starts a node, possibly on a remote machine,
- and guarantees cross architecture transparency. Type is set to
- either <c>slave</c> or <c>peer</c>.
- </p>
- <p><c>slave</c> means that the new node will have a master,
- i.e. the slave node will terminate if the master terminates,
- TTY output produced on the slave will be sent back to the
- master node and file I/O is done via the master. The master is
- normally the target node unless the target is itself a slave.
- </p>
- <p><c>peer</c> means that the new node is an independent node
- with no master.
- </p>
- <p><c>Options</c> is a tuplelist which can contain one or more
- of
- </p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{remote, true}</c></tag>
- <item>Start the node on a remote host. If not specified, the
- node will be started on the local host. Test cases that
- require a remote host will fail with a reasonable comment if
- no remote hosts are available at the time they are run.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{args, Arguments}</c></tag>
- <item>Arguments passed directly to the node. This is
- typically a string appended to the command line.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{wait, false}</c></tag>
- <item>Don't wait until the node is up. By default, this
- function does not return until the node is up and running,
- but this option makes it return as soon as the node start
- command is given..
- <br></br>
-Only valid for peer nodes
- </item>
- <tag><c>{fail_on_error, false}</c></tag>
- <item>Returns <c>{error, Reason}</c> rather than failing the
- test case.
- <br></br>
-Only valid for peer nodes. Note that slave nodes always
- act as if they had <c>fail_on_error=false</c></item>
- <tag><c>{erl, ReleaseList}</c></tag>
- <item>Use an Erlang emulator determined by ReleaseList when
- starting nodes, instead of the same emulator as the test
- server is running. ReleaseList is a list of specifiers,
- where a specifier is either {release, Rel}, {prog, Prog}, or
- 'this'. Rel is either the name of a release, e.g., "r12b_patched"
- or 'latest'. 'this' means using the same emulator as the test
- server. Prog is the name of an emulator executable. If the
- list has more than one element, one of them is picked
- randomly. (Only works on Solaris and Linux, and the test server
- gives warnings when it notices that nodes are not of the same
- version as itself.)
- <br></br>
- <br></br>
-
- When specifying this option to run a previous release, use
- <c>is_release_available/1</c> function to test if the given
- release is available and skip the test case if not.
- <br></br>
- <br></br>
-
- In order to avoid compatibility problems (may not appear right
- away), use a shielded node (see <c>run_on_shielded_node/2</c>)
- when starting nodes from different OTP releases than the test
- server.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{cleanup, false}</c></tag>
- <item>Tells the test server not to kill this node if it is
- still alive after the test case is completed. This is useful
- if the same node is to be used by a group of test cases.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{env, Env}</c></tag>
- <item><c>Env</c> should be a list of tuples <c>{Name, Val}</c>,
- where <c>Name</c> is the name of an environment variable, and
- <c>Val</c> is the value it is to have in the started node.
- Both <c>Name</c> and <c>Val</c> must be strings. The one
- exception is <c>Val</c> being the atom <c>false</c> (in
- analogy with <c>os:getenv/1</c>), which removes the
- environment variable. Only valid for peer nodes. Not
- available on VxWorks.</item>
- <tag><c>{start_cover, false}</c></tag>
- <item>By default the test server will start cover on all nodes
- when the test is run with code coverage analysis. To make
- sure cover is not started on a new node, set this option to
- <c>false</c>. This can be necessary if the connection to
- the node at some point will be broken but the node is
- expected to stay alive. The reason is that a remote cover
- node can not continue to run without its main node. Another
- solution would be to explicitly stop cover on the node
- before breaking the connection, but in some situations (if
- old code resides in one or more processes) this is not
- possible.</item>
- </taglist>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>stop_node(NodeName) -> bool()</name>
- <fsummary>Stops a node</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>NodeName = term()</v>
- <d>Name of the node to stop</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This functions stops a node previously started with
- <c>start_node/3</c>. Use this function to stop any node you
- start, or the test server will produce a warning message in
- the test logs, and kill the nodes automatically unless it was
- started with the <c>{cleanup, false}</c> option.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>is_commercial() -> bool()</name>
- <fsummary>Tests whether the emulator is commercially supported</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This function test whether the emulator is commercially supported
- emulator. The tests for a commercially supported emulator could be more
- stringent (for instance, a commercial release should always contain
- documentation for all applications).</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
-
- <func>
- <name>is_release_available(Release) -> bool()</name>
- <fsummary>Tests whether a release is available</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Release = string() | atom()</v>
- <d>Release to test for</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function test whether the release given by
- <c>Release</c> (for instance, "r12b_patched") is available
- on the computer that the test_server controller is running on.
- Typically, you should skip the test case if not.</p>
- <p>Caution: This function may not be called from the <c>suite</c>
- clause of a test case, as the test_server will deadlock.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>is_native(Mod) -> bool()</name>
- <fsummary>Checks whether the module is natively compiled or not</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>A module name</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Checks whether the module is natively compiled or not</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>app_test(App) -> ok | test_server:fail()</name>
- <name>app_test(App,Mode)</name>
- <fsummary>Checks an applications .app file for obvious errors</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>App = term()</v>
- <d>The name of the application to test</d>
- <v>Mode = pedantic | tolerant</v>
- <d>Default is pedantic</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Checks an applications .app file for obvious errors.
- The following is checked:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>required fields
- </item>
- <item>that all modules specified actually exists
- </item>
- <item>that all requires applications exists
- </item>
- <item>that no module included in the application has export_all
- </item>
- <item>that all modules in the ebin/ dir is included (If
- <c>Mode==tolerant</c> this only produces a warning, as all
- modules does not have to be included)</item>
- </list>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>appup_test(App) -> ok | test_server:fail()</name>
- <fsummary>Checks an applications .appup file for obvious errors</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>App = term()</v>
- <d>The name of the application to test</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Checks an applications .appup file for obvious errors.
- The following is checked:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>syntax
- </item>
- <item>that .app file version and .appup file version match
- </item>
- <item>for non-library applications: validity of high-level upgrade
- instructions, specifying no instructions is explicitly allowed
- (in this case the application is not upgradeable)</item>
- <item>for library applications: that there is exactly one wildcard
- regexp clause restarting the application when upgrading or
- downgrading from any version</item>
- </list>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>comment(Comment) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Print a comment on the HTML result page</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>The given String will occur in the comment field of the
- table on the HTML result page. If called several times, only
- the last comment is printed. comment/1 is also overwritten by
- the return value {comment,Comment} from a test case or by
- fail/1 (which prints Reason as a comment).</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-
- <section>
- <title>TEST SUITE EXPORTS</title>
- <p>The following functions must be exported from a test suite
- module.
- </p>
- </section>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>all(suite) -> TestSpec | {skip, Comment}</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the module's test specification</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>TestSpec = list()</v>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>This comment will be printed on the HTML result page</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function must return the test specification for the
- test suite module. The syntax of a test specification is
- described in the Test Server User's Guide.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>init_per_suite(Config0) -> Config1 | {skip, Comment}</name>
- <fsummary>Test suite initiation</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Config0 = Config1 = [tuple()]</v>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>Describes why the suite is skipped</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called before all other test cases in the
- suite. <c>Config</c> is the configuration which can be modified
- here. Whatever is returned from this function is given as
- <c>Config</c> to the test cases.
- </p>
- <p>If this function fails, all test cases in the suite will be
- skipped.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>end_per_suite(Config) -> void()</name>
- <fsummary>Test suite finalization</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Config = [tuple()]</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called after the last test case in the
- suite, and can be used to clean up whatever the test cases
- have done. The return value is ignored.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>init_per_testcase(Case, Config0) -> Config1 | {skip, Comment}</name>
- <fsummary>Test case initiation</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <v>Config0 = Config1 = [tuple()]</v>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>Describes why the test case is skipped</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called before each test case. The
- <c>Case</c> argument is the name of the test case, and
- <c>Config</c> is the configuration which can be modified
- here. Whatever is returned from this function is given as
- <c>Config</c> to the test case.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>end_per_testcase(Case, Config) -> void()</name>
- <fsummary>Test case finalization</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <v>Config = [tuple()]</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called after each test case, and can be
- used to clean up whatever the test case has done. The return
- value is ignored.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>Case(doc) -> [Decription]</name>
- <name>Case(suite) -> [] | TestSpec | {skip, Comment}</name>
- <name>Case(Config) -> {skip, Comment} | {comment, Comment} | Ok</name>
- <fsummary>A test case</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Description = string()</v>
- <d>Short description of the test case</d>
- <v>TestSpec = list()</v>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>This comment will be printed on the HTML result page</d>
- <v>Ok = term()</v>
- <v>Config = [tuple()]</v>
- <d>Elements from the Config parameter can be read with the ?config macro, see section about test suite support macros</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>The <em>documentation clause</em> (argument <c>doc</c>) can
- be used for automatic generation of test documentation or test
- descriptions.
- </p>
- <p>The <em>specification clause</em> (argument <c>spec</c>)
- shall return an empty list, the test specification for the
- test case or <c>{skip,Comment}</c>. The syntax of a test
- specification is described in the Test Server User's Guide.
- </p>
- <p>The <em>execution clause</em> (argument <c>Config</c>) is
- only called if the specification clause returns an empty list.
- The execution clause is the real test case. Here you must call
- the functions you want to test, and do whatever you need to
- check the result. If something fails, make sure the process
- crashes or call <c>test_server:fail/0/1</c> (which also will
- cause the process to crash).
- </p>
- <p>You can return <c>{skip,Comment}</c> if you decide not to
- run the test case after all, e.g. if it is not applicable on
- this platform.
- </p>
- <p>You can return <c>{comment,Comment}</c> if you wish to
- print some information in the 'Comment' field on the HTML
- result page.
- </p>
- <p>If the execution clause returns anything else, it is
- considered a success, unless it is <c>{'EXIT',Reason}</c> or
- <c>{'EXIT',Pid,Reason}</c> which can't be distinguished from a
- crash, and thus will be considered a failure.
- </p>
- <p>A <em>conf test case</em> is a group of test cases with an
- init and a cleanup function. The init and cleanup functions
- are also test cases, but they have special rules:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>They do not need a specification clause.</item>
- <item>They must always have the execution clause.</item>
- <item>They must return the <c>Config</c> parameter, a modified
- version of it or <c>{skip,Comment}</c> from the execution clause.</item>
- <item>The cleanup function may also return a tuple
- <c>{return_group_result,Status}</c>, which is used to return the
- status of the conf case to Test Server and/or to a conf case on a
- higher level. (<c>Status = ok | skipped | failed</c>).</item>
- <item><c>init_per_testcase</c> and <c>end_per_testcase</c> are
- not called before and after these functions.</item>
- </list>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-
-
- <section>
- <title>TEST SUITE SUPPORT MACROS</title>
- <p>There are some macros defined in the <c>test_server.hrl</c>
- that are quite useful for test suite programmers:
- </p>
- <p>The <em>config</em> macro, is used to
- retrieve information from the <c>Config</c> variable sent to all
- test cases. It is used with two arguments, where the first is the
- name of the configuration variable you wish to retrieve, and the
- second is the <c>Config</c> variable supplied to the test case
- from the test server.
- </p>
- <p>Possible configuration variables include:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item><c>data_dir</c> - Data file directory.</item>
- <item><c>priv_dir</c> - Scratch file directory.</item>
- <item><c>nodes</c> - Nodes specified in the spec file</item>
- <item><c>nodenames</c> - Generated nodenames.</item>
- <item>Whatever added by conf test cases or
- <c>init_per_testcase/2</c></item>
- </list>
- <p>Examples of the <c>config</c> macro can be seen in the Examples chapter
- in the user's guide.</p>
- <p>The <em>line</em> and <em>line_trace</em> macros are deprecated, see
- below.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>TEST SUITE LINE NUMBERS</title>
- <p>In the past, ERTS did not produce line numbers when generating
- stacktraces, test_server was thus unable to provide them when reporting
- test failures. It had instead two different mecanisms to do it: either by
- using the <c>line</c> macro or by using the <c>test_server_line</c> parse
- transform. Both are deprecated and should not be used in new tests
- anymore.</p>
- </section>
-</erlref>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_app.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_app.xml
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index 4830916561..0000000000
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_app.xml
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@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE appref SYSTEM "appref.dtd">
-
-<appref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Server Application</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <responsible>Peter Andersson</responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date>2002-07-12</date>
- <rev>PA1</rev>
- <file>test_server_app.xml</file>
- </header>
- <app>test_server</app>
- <appsummary>Test Server for manual or automatic testing of Erlang code</appsummary>
- <description>
- <p><em>Test Server</em> is a portable test server for
- automated application testing. The server can run test suites
- and log progress and results to HTML
- pages. The main purpose of Test Server is to act as engine
- inside customized test tools. A callback interface for
- such framework applications is provided.</p>
- <p>In brief the test server supports:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Running multiple, concurrent test suites</item>
- <item>Test suites may contain other test suites, in a tree fashion</item>
- <item>Logging of the events in a test suite, on both suite and case levels</item>
- <item>HTML presentation of test suite results</item>
- <item>HTML presentation of test suite code</item>
- <item>Support for test suite authors, e.g. start/stop slave nodes</item>
- <item>Call trace on target and slave nodes</item>
- </list>
- <p>For information about how to write test cases and test suites,
- please see the Test Server User's Guide and the reference
- manual for the <c>test_server</c> module.
- </p>
- <p><em>Common Test</em> is an existing test tool application based on the
- OTP Test Server. Please read the Common Test User's Guide for more information.
- </p>
- </description>
-
- <section>
- <title>Configuration</title>
- <p>There are currently no configuration parameters available for
- this application.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>SEE ALSO</title>
- <p></p>
- </section>
-</appref>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_ctrl.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_ctrl.xml
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--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server_ctrl.xml
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@@ -1,844 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
-
-<erlref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2007</year>
- <year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>The Test Server Controller</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen, Peter Andersson</prepared>
- <responsible></responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>test_server_ctrl_ref.sgml</file>
- </header>
- <module>test_server_ctrl</module>
- <modulesummary>This module provides a low level interface to the Test Server.</modulesummary>
- <description>
- <p>The <c>test_server_ctrl</c> module provides a low level
- interface to the Test Server. This interface is normally
- not used directly by the tester, but through a framework built
- on top of <c>test_server_ctrl</c>.
- </p>
- <p>Common Test is such a framework, well suited for automated
- black box testing of target systems of any kind (not necessarily
- implemented in Erlang). Common Test is also a very useful tool for
- white box testing Erlang programs and OTP applications.
- Please see the Common Test User's Guide and reference manual for
- more information.
- </p>
- <p>If you want to write your own framework, some more information
- can be found in the chapter "Writing your own test server
- framework" in the Test Server User's Guide. Details about the
- interface provided by <c>test_server_ctrl</c> follows below.
- </p>
- </description>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>start() -> Result</name>
- <fsummary>Starts the test server.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Result = ok | {error, {already_started, pid()}</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function starts the test server.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>stop() -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Stops the test server immediately.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This stops the test server and
- all its activity. The running test suite (if any) will be
- halted.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_dir(Name, Dir) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_dir(Name, Dir, Pattern) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_dir(Name, [Dir|Dirs]) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_dir(Name, [Dir|Dirs], Pattern) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Add a directory to the job queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Name = term()</v>
- <d>The jobname for this directory.</d>
- <v>Dir = term()</v>
- <d>The directory to scan for test suites.</d>
- <v>Dirs = [term()]</v>
- <d>List of directories to scan for test suites.</d>
- <v>Pattern = term()</v>
- <d>Suite match pattern. Directories will be scanned for Pattern_SUITE.erl files.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Puts a collection of suites matching (*_SUITE) in given
- directories into the job queue. <c>Name</c> is an arbitrary
- name for the job, it can be any erlang term. If <c>Pattern</c>
- is given, only modules matching <c>Pattern*</c> will be added.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_module(Mod) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_module(Name, [Mod|Mods]) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Add a module to the job queue with or without a given name.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <v>Mods = [atom()]</v>
- <d>The name(s) of the module(s) to add.</d>
- <v>Name = term()</v>
- <d>Name for the job.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function adds a module or a list of modules, to the
- test servers job queue. <c>Name</c> may be any Erlang
- term. When <c>Name</c> is not given, the job gets the name of
- the module.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_case(Mod, Case) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Adds one test case to the job queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of the module the test case is in.</d>
- <v>Case = atom() </v>
- <d>Function name of the test case to add.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function will add one test case to the job queue. The
- job will be given the module's name.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_case(Name, Mod, Case) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Equivalent to add_case/2, but with specified name.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Name = string()</v>
- <d>Name to use for the test job.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Equivalent to <c>add_case/2</c>, but the test job will get
- the specified name.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_cases(Mod, Cases) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Adds a list of test cases to the job queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of the module the test case is in.</d>
- <v>Cases = [Case] </v>
- <v>Case = atom() </v>
- <d>Function names of the test cases to add.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function will add one or more test cases to the job
- queue. The job will be given the module's name.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_cases(Name, Mod, Cases) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Equivalent to add_cases/2, but with specified name.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Name = string()</v>
- <d>Name to use for the test job.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Equivalent to <c>add_cases/2</c>, but the test job will get
- the specified name.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_spec(TestSpecFile) -> ok | {error, nofile}</name>
- <fsummary>Adds a test specification file to the job queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>TestSpecFile = string()</v>
- <d>Name of the test specification file</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function will add the content of the given test
- specification file to the job queue. The job will be given the
- name of the test specification file, e.g. if the file is
- called <c>test.spec</c>, the job will be called <c>test</c>.
- </p>
- <p>See the reference manual for the test server application
- for details about the test specification file.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_dir_with_skip(Name, [Dir|Dirs], Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_dir_with_skip(Name, [Dir|Dirs], Pattern, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_module_with_skip(Mod, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_module_with_skip(Name, [Mod|Mods], Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_case_with_skip(Mod, Case, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_case_with_skip(Name, Mod, Case, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_cases_with_skip(Mod, Cases, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <name>add_cases_with_skip(Name, Mod, Cases, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Same purpose as functions listed above, but with extra Skip argument.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Skip = [SkipItem]</v>
- <d>List of items to be skipped from the test.</d>
- <v>SkipItem = {Mod,Comment} | {Mod,Case,Comment} | {Mod,Cases,Comment}</v>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>Reason why suite or case is being skipped.</d>
- <v>Cases = [Case]</v>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case function.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>These functions add test jobs just like the add_dir, add_module,
- add_case and add_cases functions above, but carry an additional
- argument, Skip. Skip is a list of items that should be skipped
- in the current test run. Test job items that occur in the Skip
- list will be logged as SKIPPED with the associated Comment.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>add_tests_with_skip(Name, Tests, Skip) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Adds different types of jobs to the run queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Name = term()</v>
- <d>The jobname for this directory.</d>
- <v>Tests = [TestItem]</v>
- <d>List of jobs to add to the run queue.</d>
- <v>TestItem = {Dir,all,all} | {Dir,Mods,all} | {Dir,Mod,Cases}</v>
- <v>Dir = term()</v>
- <d>The directory to scan for test suites.</d>
- <v>Mods = [Mod]</v>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Cases = [Case]</v>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case function.</d>
- <v>Skip = [SkipItem]</v>
- <d>List of items to be skipped from the test.</d>
- <v>SkipItem = {Mod,Comment} | {Mod,Case,Comment} | {Mod,Cases,Comment}</v>
- <v>Comment = string()</v>
- <d>Reason why suite or case is being skipped.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function adds various test jobs to the test_server_ctrl
- job queue. These jobs can be of different type (all or specific suites
- in one directory, all or specific cases in one suite, etc). It is also
- possible to get particular items skipped by passing them along in the
- Skip list (see the add_*_with_skip functions above).</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>abort_current_testcase(Reason) -> ok | {error,no_testcase_running}</name>
- <fsummary>Aborts the test case currently executing.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- <d>The reason for stopping the test case, which will be printed in the log.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>When calling this function, the currently executing test case will be aborted.
- It is the user's responsibility to know for sure which test case is currently
- executing. The function is therefore only safe to call from a function which
- has been called (or synchronously invoked) by the test case.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>set_levels(Console, Major, Minor) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Sets the levels of I/O.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Console = integer()</v>
- <d>Level for I/O to be sent to console.</d>
- <v>Major = integer()</v>
- <d>Level for I/O to be sent to the major logfile.</d>
- <v>Minor = integer()</v>
- <d>Level for I/O to be sent to the minor logfile.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Determines where I/O from test suites/test server will
- go. All text output from test suites and the test server is
- tagged with a priority value which ranges from 0 to 100, 100
- being the most detailed. (see the section about log files in
- the user's guide). Output from the test cases (using
- <c>io:format/2</c>) has a detail level of 50. Depending on the
- levels set by this function, this I/O may be sent to the
- console, the major log file (for the whole test suite) or to
- the minor logfile (separate for each test case).
- </p>
- <p>All output with detail level:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Less than or equal to <c>Console</c> is displayed on
- the screen (default 1)
- </item>
- <item>Less than or equal to <c>Major</c> is logged in the
- major log file (default 19)
- </item>
- <item>Greater than or equal to <c>Minor</c> is logged in the
- minor log files (default 10)
- </item>
- </list>
- <p>To view the currently set thresholds, use the
- <c>get_levels/0</c> function.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>get_levels() -> {Console, Major, Minor}</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the current levels.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Returns the current levels. See <c>set_levels/3</c> for
- types.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>jobs() -> JobQueue</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the job queue.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>JobQueue = [{list(), pid()}]</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function will return all the jobs currently in the job
- queue.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>multiply_timetraps(N) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>All timetraps started after this will be multiplied by N.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>N = integer() | infinity</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function should be called before a test is started
- which requires extended timetraps, e.g. if extensive tracing
- is used. All timetraps started after this call will be
- multiplied by <c>N</c>.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>scale_timetraps(Bool) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Bool = true | false</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function should be called before a test is started.
- The parameter specifies if test_server should attempt
- to automatically scale the timetrap value in order to compensate
- for delays caused by e.g. the cover tool.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>get_timetrap_parameters() -> {N,Bool} </name>
- <fsummary>Read the parameter values that affect timetraps.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>N = integer() | infinity</v>
- <v>Bool = true | false</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function may be called to read the values set by
- <c>multiply_timetraps/1</c> and <c>scale_timetraps/1</c>.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>cover(Application,Analyse) -> ok</name>
- <name>cover(CoverFile,Analyse) -> ok</name>
- <name>cover(App,CoverFile,Analyse) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Informs the test_server controller that next test shall run with code coverage analysis.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Application = atom()</v>
- <d>OTP application to cover compile</d>
- <v>CoverFile = string()</v>
- <d>Name of file listing modules to exclude from or include in cover compilation. The filename must include full path to the file.</d>
- <v>Analyse = details | overview</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function informs the test_server controller that next
- test shall run with code coverage analysis. All timetraps will
- automatically be multiplied by 10 when cover i run.
- </p>
- <p><c>Application</c> and <c>CoverFile</c> indicates what to
- cover compile. If <c>Application</c> is given, the default is
- that all modules in the <c>ebin</c> directory of the
- application will be cover compiled. The <c>ebin</c> directory
- is found by adding <c>ebin</c> to
- <c>code:lib_dir(Application)</c>.
- </p>
- <p>A <c>CoverFile</c> can have the following entries:</p>
- <code type="none">
-{exclude, all | ExcludeModuleList}.
-{include, IncludeModuleList}.
-{cross, CrossCoverInfo}.</code>
- <p>Note that each line must end with a full
- stop. <c>ExcludeModuleList</c> and <c>IncludeModuleList</c>
- are lists of atoms, where each atom is a module name.
- </p>
-
- <p><c>CrossCoverInfo</c> is used when collecting cover data
- over multiple tests. Modules listed here are compiled, but
- they will not be analysed when the test is finished. See
- <seealso
- marker="#cross_cover_analyse-2">cross_cover_analyse/2</seealso>
- for more information about the cross cover mechanism and the
- format of <c>CrossCoverInfo</c>.
- </p>
- <p>If both an <c>Application</c> and a <c>CoverFile</c> is
- given, all modules in the application are cover compiled,
- except for the modules listed in <c>ExcludeModuleList</c>. The
- modules in <c>IncludeModuleList</c> are also cover compiled.
- </p>
- <p>If a <c>CoverFile</c> is given, but no <c>Application</c>,
- only the modules in <c>IncludeModuleList</c> are cover
- compiled.
- </p>
- <p><c>Analyse</c> indicates the detail level of the cover
- analysis. If <c>Analyse = details</c>, each cover compiled
- module will be analysed with
- <c>cover:analyse_to_file/1</c>. If <c>Analyse = overview</c>
- an overview of all cover compiled modules is created, listing
- the number of covered and not covered lines for each module.
- </p>
- <p>If the test following this call starts any slave or peer
- nodes with <c>test_server:start_node/3</c>, the same cover
- compiled code will be loaded on all nodes. If the loading
- fails, e.g. if the node runs an old version of OTP, the node
- will simply not be a part of the coverage analysis. Note that
- slave or peer nodes must be stopped with
- <c>test_server:stop_node/1</c> for the node to be part of the
- coverage analysis, else the test server will not be able to
- fetch coverage data from the node.
- </p>
- <p>When the test is finished, the coverage analysis is
- automatically completed, logs are created and the cover
- compiled modules are unloaded. If another test is to be run
- with coverage analysis, <c>test_server_ctrl:cover/2/3</c> must
- be called again.
- </p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>cross_cover_analyse(Level, Tests) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Analyse cover data collected from multiple tests</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Level = details | overview</v>
- <v>Tests = [{Tag,LogDir}]</v>
- <v>Tag = atom()</v>
- <d>Test identifier.</d>
- <v>LogDir = string()</v>
- <d>Log directory for the test identified by <c>Tag</c>. This
- can either be the <c>run.&lt;timestamp&gt;</c> directory or
- the parent directory of this (in which case the latest
- <c>run.&lt;timestamp&gt;</c> directory is chosen.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Analyse cover data collected from multiple tests. The modules
- analysed are the ones listed in <c>cross</c> statements in
- the cover files. These are modules that are heavily used by
- other tests than the one where they belong or are explicitly
- tested. They should then be listed as cross modules in the
- cover file for the test where they are used but do not
- belong. Se example below.</p>
- <p>This function should be run after all tests are completed,
- and the result will be stored in a file called
- <c>cross_cover.html</c> in the <c>run.&lt;timestamp&gt;</c>
- directory of the test the modules belong to.</p>
- <p>Note that the function can be executed on any node, and it
- does not require <c>test_server_ctrl</c> to be started first.</p>
- <p>The <c>cross</c> statement in the cover file must be like this:</p>
- <code type="none">
-{cross,[{Tag,Modules}]}.</code>
- <p>where <c>Tag</c> is the same as <c>Tag</c> in the
- <c>Tests</c> parameter to this function and <c>Modules</c> is a
- list of module names (atoms).</p>
- <p><em>Example:</em></p>
- <p>If the module <c>m1</c> belongs to system <c>s1</c> but is
- heavily used also in the tests for another system <c>s2</c>,
- then the cover files for the two systems' tests could be like
- this:</p>
-<code type="none">
-s1.cover:
- {include,[m1]}.
-
-s2.cover:
- {include,[....]}. % modules belonging to system s2
- {cross,[{s1,[m1]}]}.</code>
- <p>When the tests for both <c>s1</c> and <c>s2</c> are completed, run</p>
-<code type="none">
-test_server_ctrl:cross_cover_analyse(Level,[{s1,S1LogDir},{s2,S2LogDir}])
-</code>
-
- <p>and the accumulated cover data for <c>m1</c> will be written to
- <c>S1LogDir/[run.&lt;timestamp&gt;/]cross_cover.html</c>.</p>
- <p>Note that the <c>m1</c> module will also be presented in the
- normal coverage log for <c>s1</c> (due to the include statement in
- <c>s1.cover</c>), but that only includes the coverage achieved by the
- <c>s1</c> test itself.</p>
- <p>The Tag in the <c>cross</c> statement in the cover file has
- no other purpose than mapping the list of modules
- (<c>[m1]</c> in the example above) to the correct log
- directory where it should be included in the
- <c>cross_cover.html</c> file (<c>S1LogDir</c> in the example
- above). I.e. the value of <c>Tag</c> has no meaning, it
- could be <c>foo</c> as well as <c>s1</c> above, as long as
- the same <c>Tag</c> is used in the cover file and in the
- call to this function.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>trc(TraceInfoFile) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Starts call trace on target and slave nodes</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>TraceInfoFile = atom() | string()</v>
- <d>Name of a file defining which functions to trace and how</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function starts call trace on target and on slave or
- peer nodes that are started or will be started by the test
- suites.
- </p>
- <p>Timetraps are not extended automatically when tracing is
- used. Use <c>multiply_timetraps/1</c> if necessary.
- </p>
- <p>Note that the trace support in the test server is in a very
- early stage of the implementation, and thus not yet as
- powerful as one might wish for.
- </p>
- <p>The trace information file specified by the
- <c>TraceInfoFile</c> argument is a text file containing one or
- more of the following elements:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item><c>{SetTP,Module,Pattern}.</c></item>
- <item><c>{SetTP,Module,Function,Pattern}.</c></item>
- <item><c>{SetTP,Module,Function,Arity,Pattern}.</c></item>
- <item><c>ClearTP.</c></item>
- <item><c>{ClearTP,Module}.</c></item>
- <item><c>{ClearTP,Module,Function}.</c></item>
- <item><c>{ClearTP,Module,Function,Arity}.</c></item>
- </list>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>SetTP = tp | tpl</c></tag>
- <item>This is maps to the corresponding functions in the
- <c>ttb</c> module in the <c>observer</c>
- application. <c>tp</c> means set trace pattern on global
- function calls. <c>tpl</c> means set trace pattern on local
- and global function calls.
- </item>
- <tag><c>ClearTP = ctp | ctpl | ctpg</c></tag>
- <item>This is maps to the corresponding functions in the
- <c>ttb</c> module in the <c>observer</c>
- application. <c>ctp</c> means clear trace pattern (i.e. turn
- off) on global and local function calls. <c>ctpl</c> means
- clear trace pattern on local function calls only and <c>ctpg</c>
- means clear trace pattern on global function calls only.
- </item>
- <tag><c>Module = atom()</c></tag>
- <item>The module to trace
- </item>
- <tag><c>Function = atom()</c></tag>
- <item>The name of the function to trace
- </item>
- <tag><c>Arity = integer()</c></tag>
- <item>The arity of the function to trace
- </item>
- <tag><c>Pattern = [] | match_spec()</c></tag>
- <item>The trace pattern to set for the module or
- function. For a description of the match_spec() syntax,
- please turn to the User's guide for the runtime system
- (erts). The chapter "Match Specification in Erlang" explains
- the general match specification language.
- </item>
- </taglist>
- <p>The trace result will be logged in a (binary) file called
- <c>NodeName-test_server</c> in the current directory of the
- test server controller node. The log must be formatted using
- <c>ttb:format/1/2</c>.
- </p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>stop_trace() -> ok | {error, not_tracing}</name>
- <fsummary>Stops tracing on target and slave nodes.</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This function stops tracing on target, and on slave or peer
- nodes that are currently running. New slave or peer nodes will
- no longer be traced after this.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-
- <section>
- <title>FUNCTIONS INVOKED FROM COMMAND LINE</title>
- <p>The following functions are supposed to be invoked from the
- command line using the <c>-s</c> option when starting the erlang
- node.</p>
- </section>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>run_test(CommandLine) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Runs the tests specified on the command line.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>CommandLine = FlagList</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is supposed to be invoked from the
- commandline. It starts the test server, interprets the
- argument supplied from the commandline, runs the tests
- specified and when all tests are done, stops the test server
- and returns to the Erlang prompt.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>CommandLine</c> argument is a list of command line
- flags, typically <c>['KEY1', Value1, 'KEY2', Value2, ...]</c>.
- The valid command line flags are listed below.
- </p>
- <p>Under a UNIX command prompt, this function can be invoked like this:
- <br></br>
-<c>erl -noshell -s test_server_ctrl run_test KEY1 Value1 KEY2 Value2 ... -s erlang halt</c></p>
- <p>Or make an alias (this is for unix/tcsh) <br></br>
-<c>alias erl_test 'erl -noshell -s test_server_ctrl run_test \!* -s erlang halt'</c></p>
- <p>And then use it like this <br></br>
-<c>erl_test KEY1 Value1 KEY2 Value2 ...</c> <br></br>
-</p>
- <p>The valid command line flags are</p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>DIR dir</c></tag>
- <item>Adds all test modules in the directory <c>dir</c> to
- the job queue.
- </item>
- <tag><c>MODULE mod</c></tag>
- <item>Adds the module <c>mod</c> to the job queue.
- </item>
- <tag><c>CASE mod case</c></tag>
- <item>Adds the case <c>case</c> in module <c>mod</c> to the
- job queue.
- </item>
- <tag><c>SPEC spec</c></tag>
- <item>Runs the test specification file <c>spec</c>.
- </item>
- <tag><c>SKIPMOD mod</c></tag>
- <item>Skips all test cases in the module <c>mod</c></item>
- <tag><c>SKIPCASE mod case</c></tag>
- <item>Skips the test case <c>case</c> in module <c>mod</c>.
- </item>
- <tag><c>NAME name</c></tag>
- <item>Names the test suite to something else than the
- default name. This does not apply to <c>SPEC</c> which keeps
- its names.
- </item>
- <tag><c>COVER app cover_file analyse</c></tag>
- <item>Indicates that the test should be run with cover
- analysis. <c>app</c>, <c>cover_file</c> and <c>analyse</c>
- corresponds to the parameters to
- <c>test_server_ctrl:cover/3</c>. If no cover file is used,
- the atom <c>none</c> should be given.
- </item>
- <tag><c>TRACE traceinfofile</c></tag>
- <item>Specifies a trace information file. When this option
- is given, call tracing is started on the target node and all
- slave or peer nodes that are started. The trace information
- file specifies which modules and functions to trace. See the
- function <c>trc/1</c> above for more information about the
- syntax of this file.
- </item>
- </taglist>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-
- <section>
- <title>FRAMEWORK CALLBACK FUNCTIONS</title>
- <p>A test server framework can be defined by setting the
- environment variable <c>TEST_SERVER_FRAMEWORK</c> to a module
- name. This module will then be framework callback module, and it
- must export the following function:</p>
- </section>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>get_suite(Mod,Func) -> TestCaseList</name>
- <fsummary>Get subcases.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Func = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case.</d>
- <v>TestCaseList = [SubCase]</v>
- <d>List of test cases.</d>
- <v>SubCase = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of a case.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called before a test case is started. The
- purpose is to retrieve a list of subcases. The default
- behaviour of this function should be to call
- <c>Mod:Func(suite)</c> and return the result from this call.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>init_tc(Mod,Func,Args0) -> {ok,Args1} | {skip,ReasonToSkip} | {auto_skip,ReasonToSkip} | {fail,ReasonToFail}</name>
- <fsummary>Preparation for a test case or configuration function.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Func = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>Args0 = Args1 = [tuple()]</v>
- <d>Normally Args = [Config]</d>
- <v>ReasonToSkip = term()</v>
- <d>Reason to skip the test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>ReasonToFail = term()</v>
- <d>Reason to fail the test case or configuration function.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called before a test case or configuration
- function starts. It is called on the process executing the function
- <c>Mod:Func</c>. Typical use of this function can be to alter
- the input parameters to the test case function (<c>Args</c>) or
- to set properties for the executing process.</p>
- <p>By returning <c>{skip,Reason}</c>, <c>Func</c> gets skipped.
- <c>Func</c> also gets skipped if <c>{auto_skip,Reason}</c> is returned,
- but then gets an auto skipped status (rather than user skipped).</p>
- <p>To fail <c>Func</c> immediately instead of executing it, return
- <c>{fail,ReasonToFail}.</c></p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>end_tc(Mod,Func,Status) -> ok | {fail,ReasonToFail}</name>
- <fsummary>Cleanup after a test case or configuration function.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Func = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>Status = {Result,Args} | {TCPid,Result,Args}</v>
- <d>The status of the test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>ReasonToFail = term()</v>
- <d>Reason to fail the test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>Result = ok | Skip | Fail</v>
- <d>The final result of the test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>TCPid = pid()</v>
- <d>Pid of the process executing Func</d>
- <v>Skip = {skip,SkipReason}</v>
- <v>SkipReason = term() | {failed,{Mod,init_per_testcase,term()}}</v>
- <d>Reason why the function was skipped.</d>
- <v>Fail = {error,term()} | {'EXIT',term()} | {timetrap_timeout,integer()} |
- {testcase_aborted,term()} | testcase_aborted_or_killed |
- {failed,term()} | {failed,{Mod,end_per_testcase,term()}}</v>
- <d>Reason why the function failed.</d>
- <v>Args = [tuple()]</v>
- <d>Normally Args = [Config]</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called when a test case, or a configuration function,
- is finished. It is normally called on the process where the function
- <c>Mod:Func</c> has been executing, but if not, the pid of the test
- case process is passed with the <c>Status</c> argument.</p>
- <p>Typical use of the <c>end_tc/3</c> function can be to clean up
- after <c>init_tc/3</c>.</p>
- <p>If <c>Func</c> is a test case, it is possible to analyse the value of
- <c>Result</c> to verify that <c>init_per_testcase/2</c> and
- <c>end_per_testcase/2</c> executed successfully.</p>
- <p>It is possible with <c>end_tc/3</c> to fail an otherwise successful
- test case, by returning <c>{fail,ReasonToFail}</c>. The test case <c>Func</c>
- will be logged as failed with the provided term as reason.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>report(What,Data) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Progress report for test.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>What = atom()</v>
- <v>Data = term()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called in order to keep the framework up-to-date with
- the progress of the test. This is useful e.g. if the
- framework implements a GUI where the progress information is
- constantly updated. The following can be reported:
- </p>
- <p><c>What = tests_start, Data = {Name,NumCases}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = loginfo, Data = [{topdir,TestRootDir},{rundir,CurrLogDir}]</c><br></br>
- <c>What = tests_done, Data = {Ok,Failed,{UserSkipped,AutoSkipped}}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = tc_start, Data = {{Mod,{Func,GroupName}},TCLogFile}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = tc_done, Data = {Mod,{Func,GroupName},Result}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = tc_user_skip, Data = {Mod,{Func,GroupName},Comment}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = tc_auto_skip, Data = {Mod,{Func,GroupName},Comment}</c><br></br>
- <c>What = framework_error, Data = {{FWMod,FWFunc},Error}</c></p>
- <p>Note that for a test case function that doesn't belong to a group,
- <c>GroupName</c> has value <c>undefined</c>, otherwise the name of the test
- case group.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>error_notification(Mod, Func, Args, Error) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Inform framework of crashing testcase or configuration function.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Mod = atom()</v>
- <d>Test suite name.</d>
- <v>Func = atom()</v>
- <d>Name of test case or configuration function.</d>
- <v>Args = [tuple()]</v>
- <d>Normally Args = [Config]</d>
- <v>Error = {Reason,Location}</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- <d>Reason for termination.</d>
- <v>Location = unknown | [{Mod,Func,Line}]</v>
- <d>Last known position in Mod before termination.</d>
- <v>Line = integer()</v>
- <d>Line number in file Mod.erl.</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function is called as the result of function <c>Mod:Func</c> failing
- with Reason at Location. The function is intended mainly to aid
- specific logging or error handling in the framework application. Note
- that for Location to have relevant values (i.e. other than unknown),
- the <c>line</c> macro or <c>test_server_line</c> parse transform must
- be used. For details, please see the section about test suite line numbers
- in the <c>test_server</c> reference manual page.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>warn(What) -> boolean()</name>
- <fsummary>Ask framework if test server should issue a warning for What.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>What = processes | nodes</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>The test server checks the number of processes and nodes
- before and after the test is executed. This function is a
- question to the framework if the test server should warn when
- the number of processes or nodes has changed during the test
- execution. If <c>true</c> is returned, a warning will be written
- in the test case minor log file.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>target_info() -> InfoStr</name>
- <fsummary>Print info about the target system to the test case log.</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>InfoStr = string() | ""</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>The test server will ask the framework for information about
- the test target system and print InfoStr in the test case
- log file below the host information.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-</erlref>
-
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Test Structure and Test Specifications</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>test_spec_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test structure</title>
- <p>A test consists of a set of test cases. Each test case is
- implemented as an erlang function. An erlang module implementing
- one or more test cases is called a test suite.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test specifications</title>
- <p>A test specification is a specification of which test suites
- and test cases to run and which to skip. A test specification can
- also group several test cases into conf cases with init and
- cleanup functions (see section about configuration cases
- below). In a test there can be test specifications on three
- different levels:
- </p>
- <p>The top level is a test specification file which roughly
- specifies what to test for a whole application. The test
- specification in such a file is encapsulated in a topcase
- command.
- </p>
- <p>Then there is a test specification for each test suite,
- specifying which test cases to run within the suite. The test
- specification for a test suite is returned from the
- <c>all(suite)</c> function in the test suite module.
- </p>
- <p>And finally there can be a test specification per test case,
- specifying sub test cases to run. The test specification for a
- test case is returned from the specification clause of the test
- case.
- </p>
- <p>When a test starts, the total test specification is built in a
- tree fashion, starting from the top level test specification.
- </p>
- <p>The following are the valid elements of a test
- specification. The specification can be one of these elements or a
- list with any combination of the elements:
- </p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{Mod, Case}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies the test case Mod:Case/1
- </item>
- <tag><c>{dir, Dir}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies all modules <c>*_SUITE</c> in the directory
- <c>Dir</c></item>
- <tag><c>{dir, Dir, Pattern}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies all modules <c>Pattern*</c> in the
- directory <c>Dir</c></item>
- <tag><c>{conf, Init, TestSpec, Fin}</c></tag>
- <item>This is a configuration case. In a test specification
- file, <c>Init</c> and <c>Fin</c> must be
- <c>{Mod,Func}</c>. Inside a module they can also be just
- <c>Func</c>. See the section named Configuration Cases below for
- more information about this.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{conf, Properties, Init, TestSpec, Fin}</c></tag>
- <item>This is a configuration case as explained above, but
- which also takes a list of execution properties for its group
- of test cases and nested sub-groups.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{make, Init, TestSpec, Fin}</c></tag>
- <item>This is a special version of a conf case which is only
- used by the test server framework <c>ts</c>. <c>Init</c> and
- <c>Fin</c> are make and unmake functions for a data
- directory. <c>TestSpec</c> is the test specification for the
- test suite owning the data directory in question. If the make
- function fails, all tests in the test suite are skipped. The
- difference between this "make case" and a normal conf case is
- that for the make case, <c>Init</c> and <c>Fin</c> are given with
- arguments (<c>{Mod,Func,Args}</c>).
- </item>
- <tag><c>Case</c></tag>
- <item>This can only be used inside a module, i.e. not a test
- specification file. It specifies the test case
- <c>CurrentModule:Case</c>.
- </item>
- </taglist>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test Specification Files</title>
- <p>A test specification file is a text file containing the top
- level test specification (a topcase command), and possibly one or
- more additional commands. A "command" in a test specification file
- means a key-value tuple ended by a dot-newline sequence.
- </p>
- <p>The following commands are valid:
- </p>
- <taglist>
- <tag><c>{topcase, TestSpec}</c></tag>
- <item>This command is mandatory in all test specification
- files. <c>TestSpec</c> is the top level test specification of a
- test.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{skip, {Mod, Comment}}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies that all cases in the module <c>Mod</c>
- shall be skipped. <c>Comment</c> is a string.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{skip, {Mod, Case, Comment}}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies that the case <c>Mod:Case</c> shall be
- skipped.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{skip, {Mod, CaseList, Comment}}</c></tag>
- <item>This specifies that all cases <c>Mod:Case</c>, where
- <c>Case</c> is in <c>CaseList</c>, shall be skipped.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{nodes, Nodes}</c></tag>
- <item><c>Nodes</c> is a list of nodenames available to the test
- suite. It will be added to the <c>Config</c> argument to all
- test cases. <c>Nodes</c> is a list of atoms.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{require_nodenames, Num}</c></tag>
- <item>Specifies how many nodenames the test suite will
- need. Theese will be automatically generated and inserted into the
- <c>Config</c> argument to all test cases. <c>Num</c> is an
- integer.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{hosts, Hosts}</c></tag>
- <item>This is a list of available hosts on which to start slave
- nodes. It is used when the <c>{remote, true}</c> option is given
- to the <c>test_server:start_node/3</c> function. Also, if
- <c>{require_nodenames, Num}</c> is contained in a test
- specification file, the generated nodenames will be spread over
- all hosts given in this <c>Hosts</c> list. The hostnames are
- atoms or strings.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{diskless, true}</c></tag>
- <item>Adds <c>{diskless, true}</c> to the <c>Config</c> argument
- to all test cases. This is kept for backwards compatibility and
- should not be used. Use a configuration case instead.
- </item>
- <tag><c>{ipv6_hosts, Hosts}</c></tag>
- <item>Adds <c>{ipv6_hosts, Hosts}</c> to the <c>Config</c>
- argument to all test cases.</item>
- </taglist>
- <p>All test specification files shall have the extension
- ".spec". If special test specification files are needed for
- Windows or VxWorks platforms, additional files with the
- extension ".spec.win" and ".spec.vxworks" shall be
- used. This is useful e.g. if some test cases shall be skipped on
- these platforms.
- </p>
- <p>Some examples for test specification files can be found in the
- Examples section of this user's guide.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Configuration cases</title>
- <p>If a group of test cases need the same initialization, a so called
- <em>configuration</em> or <em>conf</em> case can be used. A conf
- case consists of an initialization function, the group of test cases
- needing this initialization and a cleanup or finalization function.
- </p>
- <p>If the init function in a conf case fails or returns
- <c>{skip,Comment}</c>, the rest of the test cases in the conf case
- (including the cleanup function) are skipped. If the init function
- succeeds, the cleanup function will always be called, even if some
- of the test cases in between failed.
- </p>
- <p>Both the init function and the cleanup function in a conf case
- get the <c>Config</c> parameter as only argument. This parameter
- can be modified or returned as is. Whatever is returned by the
- init function is given as <c>Config</c> parameter to the rest of
- the test cases in the conf case, including the cleanup function.
- </p>
- <p>If the <c>Config</c> parameter is changed by the init function,
- it must be restored by the cleanup function. Whatever is returned
- by the cleanup function will be given to the next test case called.
- </p>
- <p>The optional <c>Properties</c> list can be used to specify
- execution properties for the test cases and possibly nested
- sub-groups of the configuration case. The available properties are:</p>
- <pre>
- Properties = [parallel | sequence | Shuffle | {RepeatType,N}]
- Shuffle = shuffle | {shuffle,Seed}
- Seed = {integer(),integer(),integer()}
- RepeatType = repeat | repeat_until_all_ok | repeat_until_all_fail |
- repeat_until_any_ok | repeat_until_any_fail
- N = integer() | forever</pre>
-
- <p>If the <c>parallel</c> property is specified, Test Server will execute
- all test cases in the group in parallel. If <c>sequence</c> is specified,
- the cases will be executed in a sequence, meaning if one case fails, all
- following cases will be skipped. If <c>shuffle</c> is specified, the cases
- in the group will be executed in random order. The <c>repeat</c> property
- orders Test Server to repeat execution of the cases in the group a given
- number of times, or until any, or all, cases fail or succeed.</p>
-
- <p>Properties may be combined so that e.g. if <c>shuffle</c>,
- <c>repeat_until_any_fail</c> and <c>sequence</c> are all specified, the test
- cases in the group will be executed repeatedly and in random order until
- a test case fails, when execution is immediately stopped and the rest of
- the cases skipped.</p>
-
- <p>The properties for a conf case is always printed on the top of the HTML log
- for the group's init function. Also, the total execution time for a conf case
- can be found at the bottom of the log for the group's end function.</p>
-
- <p>Configuration cases may be nested so that sets of grouped cases can be
- configured with the same init- and end functions.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>The parallel property and nested configuration cases</title>
- <p>If a conf case has a parallel property, its test cases will be spawned
- simultaneously and get executed in parallel. A test case is not allowed
- to execute in parallel with the end function however, which means
- that the time it takes to execute a set of parallel cases is equal to the
- execution time of the slowest test case in the group. A negative side
- effect of running test cases in parallel is that the HTML summary pages
- are not updated with links to the individual test case logs until the
- end function for the conf case has finished.</p>
-
- <p>A conf case nested under a parallel conf case will start executing in
- parallel with previous (parallel) test cases (no matter what properties the
- nested conf case has). Since, however, test cases are never executed in
- parallel with the init- or the end function of the same conf case, it's
- only after a nested group of cases has finished that any remaining parallel
- cases in the previous conf case get spawned.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Repeated execution of test cases</title>
- <marker id="repeated_cases"></marker>
- <p>A conf case may be repeated a certain number of times
- (specified by an integer) or indefinitely (specified by <c>forever</c>).
- The repetition may also be stopped prematurely if any or all cases
- fail or succeed, i.e. if the property <c>repeat_until_any_fail</c>,
- <c>repeat_until_any_ok</c>, <c>repeat_until_all_fail</c>, or
- <c>repeat_until_all_ok</c> is used. If the basic <c>repeat</c>
- property is used, status of test cases is irrelevant for the repeat
- operation.</p>
-
- <p>It is possible to return the status of a conf case (ok or
- failed), to affect the execution of the conf case on the level above.
- This is accomplished by, in the end function, looking up the value
- of <c>tc_group_properties</c> in the <c>Config</c> list and checking the
- result of the finished test cases. If status <c>failed</c> should be
- returned from the conf case as a result, the end function should return
- the value <c>{return_group_result,failed}</c>. The status of a nested conf
- case is taken into account by Test Server when deciding if execution
- should be repeated or not (unless the basic <c>repeat</c> property is used).</p>
-
- <p>The <c>tc_group_properties</c> value is a list of status tuples,
- each with the key <c>ok</c>, <c>skipped</c> and <c>failed</c>. The
- value of a status tuple is a list containing names of test cases
- that have been executed with the corresponding status as result.</p>
-
- <p>Here's an example of how to return the status from a conf case:</p>
- <pre>
- conf_end_function(Config) ->
- Status = ?config(tc_group_result, Config),
- case proplists:get_value(failed, Status) of
- [] -> % no failed cases
- {return_group_result,ok};
- _Failed -> % one or more failed
- {return_group_result,failed}
- end.</pre>
-
- <p>It is also possible in the end function to check the status of
- a nested conf case (maybe to determine what status the current conf case should
- return). This is as simple as illustrated in the example above, only the
- name of the end function of the nested conf case is stored in a tuple
- <c>{group_result,EndFunc}</c>, which can be searched for in the status lists.
- Example:</p>
- <pre>
- conf_end_function_X(Config) ->
- Status = ?config(tc_group_result, Config),
- Failed = proplists:get_value(failed, Status),
- case lists:member({group_result,conf_end_function_Y}, Failed) of
- true ->
- {return_group_result,failed};
- false ->
- {return_group_result,ok}
- end;
- ...</pre>
-
- <note><p>When a conf case is repeated, the init- and end functions
- are also always called with each repetition.</p></note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Shuffled test case order</title>
- <p>The order that test cases in a conf case are executed, is under normal
- circumstances the same as the order defined in the test specification.
- With the <c>shuffle</c> property set, however, Test Server will instead
- execute the test cases in random order.</p>
-
- <p>The user may provide a seed value (a tuple of three integers) with
- the shuffle property: <c>{shuffle,Seed}</c>. This way, the same shuffling
- order can be created every time the conf case is executed. If no seed value
- is given, Test Server creates a "random" seed for the shuffling operation
- (using the return value of <c>erlang:now()</c>). The seed value is always
- printed to the log file of the init function so that it can be used to
- recreate the same execution order in subsequent test runs.</p>
-
- <note><p>If execution of a conf case with shuffled test cases is repeated,
- the seed will not be reset in between turns.</p></note>
-
- <p>If a nested conf case is specified in a conf case with a <c>shuffle</c>
- property, the execution order of the nested cases in relation to the test cases
- (and other conf cases) is also random. The order of the test cases in the nested
- conf case is however not random (unless, of course, this one also has a
- <c>shuffle</c> property).</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Skipping test cases</title>
- <p>It is possible to skip certain test cases, for example if you
- know beforehand that a specific test case fails. This might be
- functionality which isn't yet implemented, a bug that is known but
- not yet fixed or some functionality which doesn't work or isn't
- applicable on a specific platform.
- </p>
- <p>There are several different ways to state that a test case
- should be skipped:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Using the <c>{skip,What}</c> command in a test
- specification file
- </item>
- <item>Returning <c>{skip,Reason}</c> from the
- <c>init_per_testcase/2</c> function
- </item>
- <item>Returning <c>{skip,Reason}</c> from the specification
- clause of the test case
- </item>
- <item>Returning <c>{skip,Reason}</c> from the execution clause
- of the test case
- </item>
- </list>
- <p>The latter of course means that the execution clause is
- actually called, so the author must make sure that the test case
- is not run. For more information about the different clauses in a
- test case, see the chapter about writing test cases.
- </p>
- <p>When a test case is skipped, it will be noted as <c>SKIPPED</c>
- in the HTML log.
- </p>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
-
-<erlref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2007</year>
- <year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>The OTP Test Server Framework</title>
- <prepared>Mattias Nilsson</prepared>
- <responsible></responsible>
- <docno></docno>
- <approved></approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>ts.xml</file>
- </header>
- <module>ts</module>
- <modulesummary>Test Server Framework for testing OTP</modulesummary>
- <description>
- <p>This is a framework for testing OTP. The <c>ts</c> module
- implements the interface to all the functionality in the
- framework.
- </p>
- <p>The framework is built on top of the Test Server Controller,
- <c>test_server_ctrl</c>, and provides a high level operator
- interface. The main features added by the framework are:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Automatic compilation of test suites and data directories
- </item>
- <item>Collection of files in central directories and creation of
- additional HTML pages for better overview.
- </item>
- <item>Single command interface for running all available tests
- </item>
- <item>Spawns a new node with correct parameters before starting
- the test server
- </item>
- <item>Atomatically creates the parameter file needed when
- running tests on remote target
- </item>
- </list>
- <p>More information about the Test Server Framework and how to run
- test cases can be found in the Test Server User's Guide.
- </p>
- <p>For writing you own test server framework, please turn to the
- reference manual for the Test Server Controller and chapter named
- "Writing your own test server framework" in the Test Server User's
- Guide.
- </p>
- <p>SETUP</p>
- <p>To be able to run <c>ts</c>, you must first `install'
- <c>ts</c> for the current environment. This is done by calling
- <c>ts:install/0/1/2</c>. A file called `variables' is created
- and used by <c>ts</c> when running test suites. It is not
- recommended to edit this file, but it is possible to alter if
- <c>ts</c> gets the wrong idea about your environment.
- </p>
- <p><c>ts:install/0</c> is used if the target platform is the
- same as the controller host, i.e. if you run on "local target"
- and no options are needed. Then running <c>ts:install/0</c> <c>ts</c>
- will run an autoconf script for your current
- environment and set up the necessary variables needed by the
- test suites.
- </p>
- <p><c>ts:install/1</c> or <c>ts:install/2</c> is used if the
- target platform is different from the controller host, i.e. if
- you run on "remote target" or if special options are required
- for your system.
- </p>
- <p>See the reference manual for detailed information about
- <c>ts:install/0/1/2</c>.
- </p>
- <p>Some of the common variables in the 'variables' file are
- described below. Do not make any assumptions as of what is found
- in this file, as it may change at any time.
- </p>
- <list>
- <item><c>longnames</c><br></br>
- Set to true if the system is using fully qualified
- nodenames.
- </item>
- <item><c>platform_id</c><br></br>
- This is the currently installed platform identification
- string.
- </item>
- <item><c>platform_filename</c><br></br>
- This is the name used to create the final save directory
- for test runs.
- </item>
- <item><c>platform_label</c><br></br>
- This is the string presented in the generated test
- results index page.
- </item>
- <item><c>rsh_name</c><br></br>
- This is the rsh program to use when starting slave or
- peer nodes on a remote host.
- </item>
- <item><c>erl_flags</c><br></br>
- Compile time flags used when compiling test suites.
- </item>
- <item><c>erl_release</c><br></br>
- The Erlang/OTP release being tested.
- </item>
- <item><c>'EMULATOR'</c><br></br>
- The emulator being tested (e.g. beam)
- </item>
- <item><c>'CPU'</c><br></br>
- The CPU in the machine running the tests, e.g. sparc.
- </item>
- <item><c>target_host</c><br></br>
- The target host name
- </item>
- <item><c>os</c><br></br>
- The target operating system, e.g. solaris2.8
- </item>
- <item><c>target</c><br></br>
- The current target platform, e.g. sparc-sun-solaris2.8
- </item>
- </list>
- <p>RUNNING TESTS</p>
- <p>After installing <c>ts</c>, you can run your test with the
- <c>ts:run/0/1/2/3/4</c> functions. These functions, however,
- require a special directory structure to be able to find your
- test suites. Both the test server and all tests must be located
- under your $TESTROOT directory. The test server implementation
- shall be located in the directory <c>$TESTROOT/test_server</c>
- and for each application there must be a directory named
- <c><![CDATA[$TESTROOT/<application>_test]]></c> containing the .spec file
- and all test suites and data directories for the
- application. Note that there shall only be one .spec file for
- each application.
- </p>
- <p><c>$TESTROOT/test_server</c> must be the current directory
- when calling the <c>ts:run/*</c> function.
- </p>
- <p>All available tests can be found with <c>ts:tests()</c>. This
- will list all applications for which a test specification file
- <c><![CDATA[../<application>_test/<application>.spec]]></c> can be found.
- </p>
- <p>To run all these tests, use <c>ts:run()</c>.
- </p>
- <p>To run one or some of the tests, use <c>ts:run(Tests)</c>,
- where <c>Tests</c> is the name of the application you want to
- test, or a list of such names.
- </p>
- <p>To run one test suite within a test, use
- <c>ts:run(Test,Suite)</c>.
- </p>
- <p>To run one test case within a suite, use
- <c>ts:run(Test,Suite,Case)</c></p>
- <p>To all these functions, you can also add a list of
- options. Please turn to the reference manual for the <c>ts</c>
- module to see the valid options to use.
- </p>
- <p>The function <c>ts:help()</c> displays some simple help for
- the functions in <c>ts</c>. Use this for quick reference.
- </p>
- <p>LOG FILES</p>
- <p>As the execution of the test suites go on, events are logged in
- four different ways:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Text to the operator's console.</item>
- <item>Suite related information is sent to the major log file.</item>
- <item>Case related information is sent to the minor log file.</item>
- <item>The HTML log file gets updated with test results.</item>
- </list>
- <p>Typically the operator, who may run hundreds or thousands of
- test cases, doesn't want to fill the screen with details
- about/from the specific test cases. By default, the operator will
- only see:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>A confirmation that the test has started.
- </item>
- <item>A small note about each failed test case.
- </item>
- <item>A summary of all the run test cases.
- </item>
- <item>A confirmation that the test run is complete
- </item>
- <item>Some special information like error reports and progress
- reports, printouts written with erlang:display/1 or io:format/3
- specifically addressed to somewhere other than
- <c>standard_io</c>.</item>
- </list>
- <p>This is enough for the operator to know, and if he wants to dig
- in deeper into a specific test case result, he can do so by
- following the links in the HTML presentation to take a look in the
- major or minor log files.
- </p>
- <p>A detailed report of the entire test suite is stored in the
- major logfile, the exact reason for failure, time spent etc.
- </p>
- <p>The HTML log file is a summary of the major log file, but gives
- a much better overview of the test run. It also has links to every
- test case's log file for quick viewing with a HTML browser.
- </p>
- <p>The minor log file contain full details of every single test
- case, each one in a separate file. This way the files should be
- easy to compare with previous test runs, even if the set of test
- cases change.
- </p>
- <p>Which information that goes where is user configurable via the
- test server controller. Three threshold values determine what
- comes out on screen, and in the major or minor log files. The
- contents that goes to the HTML log file is fixed, and cannot be
- altered.
- </p>
-
- </description>
- <funcs>
- <func>
- <name>install() -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <name>install(TargetSystem) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <name>install(Opts) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <name>install(TargetSystem,Opts) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <fsummary>Installs the Test Server Framework</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>TargetSystem = {Architecture, TargetHost}</v>
- <v>Architecture = atom() or string()</v>
- <d>e.g. "ose" or "vxworks_ppc603"</d>
- <v>TargetHost = atom() or string()</v>
- <d>The name of the target host</d>
- <v>Opts = list()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>Installs and configures the Test Server Framework for
- running test suites. If a remote host is to be used, the
- <c>TargetSystem</c> argument must be given so that "cross
- installation" can be done. Installation is required for
- any of the functions in <c>ts</c> to work.
- </p>
- <p>Opts may be one or more of
- </p>
- <list>
- <item><c>{longnames, Bool}</c><br></br>
- Use fully qualified hostnames for test_server and
- slave nodes. Bool is <c>true</c> or <c>false</c> (default).
- </item>
- <item><c>{verbose, Level}</c><br></br>
- Verbosity level for test server output, set to 0, 1 or
- 2, where 0 is quiet(default).
- </item>
- <item><c>{hosts, Hosts}</c><br></br>
- This is a list of available hosts on which to start
- slave nodes. It is used when the <c>{remote, true}</c>
- option is given to the <c>test_server:start_node/3</c>
- function. Also, if <c>{require_nodenames, Num}</c> is
- contained in a test specification file, the generated
- nodenames will be spread over all hosts given in this
- <c>Hosts</c> list. The hostnames are given as atoms or
- strings.
- </item>
- <item><c>{slavetargets, SlaveTarges}</c><br></br>
- For VxWorks only. This is a list of
- available hosts where slave nodes can be started. This is
- necessary because only one node can run per host in the
- VxWorks environment. This is not the same as
- <c>{hosts, Hosts}</c> because it is used for all slave nodes
- - not only the ones started with <c>{remote, true}</c>. The
- hostnames are given as atoms or strings.
- </item>
- <item><c>{crossroot, TargetErlRoot}</c><br></br>
- Erlang root directory on target host
- <br></br>
-This option is mandatory for remote targets
- </item>
- <item><c>{master, {MasterHost, MasterCookie}}</c><br></br>
- If target is remote and the target node is started as
- a slave node, this option
- indicates which master and cookie to use. The given master
- will also be used as master for slave nodes started with
- <c>test_server:start_node/3</c>. It is expected that the
- <c>erl_boot_server</c> is started on the master node before
- the test is run. If this option is not given, the test
- server controller node is used as master and the
- <c>erl_boot_server</c> is automatically started.
- </item>
- <item><c>{erl_start_args, ArgString}</c><br></br>
- Additional arguments to be used when starting the test
- server controller node. <c>ArgString</c> will be appended to
- the command line when starting the erlang node. Note that
- this will only affect the startup of the <em>controller node</em>,
- i.e. not the target node or any slave nodes
- startet from a test case.
- </item>
- <item><c>{ipv6_hosts, HostList}</c><br></br>
- This option will be inserted in the
- <c>Config</c> parameter for each test case. <c>HostList</c>
- is a list of hosts supporting IPv6.
- </item>
- </list>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>help() -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Presents simple help on the functions in <c>ts</c></fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Presents simple help on the functions in <c>ts</c>. Useful
- for quick reference.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>tests() -> Tests</name>
- <fsummary>Returns the list of available tests</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Returns the list of available tests. This is actually just
- a list of all test specification files found by looking up
- "../*_test/*.spec".
- </p>
- <p>In each ../Name_test/ directory there should be one test
- specification file named Name.spec.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>run() -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <name>run([all_tests|Opts])</name>
- <name>run(Specs)</name>
- <name>run(Specs, Opts)</name>
- <name>run(Spec, Module)</name>
- <name>run(Spec, Module, Opts)</name>
- <name>run(Spec, Module, Case)</name>
- <name>run(Spec, Module, Case, Opts)</name>
- <fsummary>Runs (specified) test suite(s)</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>Specs = Spec | [Spec]</v>
- <v>Spec = atom()</v>
- <v>Module = atom()</v>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <v>Opts = [Opt]</v>
- <v>Opt = batch | verbose | {verbose, Level} | {vars, Vars} | keep_topcase | cover | cover_details |{cover,CoverFile} | {cover_details,CoverFile} | {trace, TraceSpec}</v>
- <v>Level = integer(); 0 means silent</v>
- <v>Vars = list() of key-value tuples</v>
- <v>CoverFile = string(); name of file listing modules to exclude from or include in cover compilation. The name must include full path to the file.</v>
- <v>Reason = term()</v>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function runs test suite(s)/case(s). To be able to run
- any tests, ts:install must first be called to create the
- <c>variables</c> file needed. To run a whole test specification,
- only specify the name of the test specification, and all test
- suite modules belonging to that test spec will be run. To run
- a single module in a test specification, use the Module
- argument to specify the name of the module to run and all test
- cases in that module will be run, and to run a specified test
- case, specify the name of the test case using the Case
- argument. If called with no argument, all test specifications
- available will be run. Use ts:tests/0 to see the available
- test specifications.
- </p>
- <p>If the <c>batch</c> option is not given, a new xterm is
- started (unix) when <c>ts:run</c> is called.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>verbose</c> option sets the verbosity level for test
- server output. This has the same effect as if given to
- <c>ts:install/1/2</c></p>
- <p>The <c>vars</c> option can be used for adding configuration
- variables that are not in the <c>variables</c> file generated
- during installation. Can be any of the <c>Opts</c> valid for
- <c>ts:install/1/2</c>.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>keep_topcase</c> option forces <c>ts</c> to keep the
- topcase in your test specification file as is. This option can
- only be used if you don't give the <c>Module</c> or
- <c>Case</c> parameters to <c>ts:run</c>. The
- <c>keep_topcase</c> option is necessary if your topcase
- contains anything other than <c><![CDATA[{dir,"../<Name>_test"}]]></c>. If
- the option is not used, <c>ts</c> will modify your topcase.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>cover</c> and <c>cover_details</c> options indicates
- that the test shall be run with code coverage
- analysis. <c>cover_details</c> means that analysis shall be
- done on the most detailed level. If the test is run with a
- remote target, this option creates a list of uncovered lines
- in each cover compiled module. If the test is run with a local
- target, each cover compiled module will be analysed with
- <c>cover:analyse_to_file/1</c>. The <c>cover</c> options will
- only create an overview of all cover compiled modules with the
- number of covered and not covered lines.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>CoverFile</c> which can be given with the
- <c>cover</c> and <c>cover_details</c> options must be the
- filename of a file listing modules to be excluded from or
- included in the cover compilation. By default, <c>ts</c>
- believes that <c>Spec</c> is the name of an OTP application
- and that all modules in this application shall be cover
- compiled. The <c>CoverFile</c> can exclude modules that belong
- to the application and add modules that don't belong to the
- application. The file can have the following entries:</p>
- <code type="none">
-{exclude, all | ExcludeModuleList}.
-{include, IncludeModuleList}. </code>
- <p>Note that each line must end with a full
- stop. <c>ExcludeModuleList</c> and <c>IncludeModuleList</c>
- are lists of atoms, where each atom is a module name.
- </p>
- <p>If the <c>cover</c> or <c>cover_details</c> options are
- given on their own, the directory <c><![CDATA[../<Spec>_test]]></c> is
- searched for a <c>CoverFile</c> named <c><![CDATA[<Spec>.cover]]></c>. If
- this file is not found, <c>Spec</c> is assumed to be the name
- of an OTP application, and all modules in the <c>ebin</c>
- directory for the application are cover compiled. The
- <c>ebin</c> directory is found by adding <c>ebin</c> to
- <c>code:lib_dir(Spec)</c>.
- </p>
- <p>The same cover compiled code will be loaded on all slave or
- peer nodes started with <c>test_server:start_node/3</c>. The
- exception is nodes that run an old version of OTP. If the loading
- fails, the node will simply not be a part of the coverage
- analysis. Note that slave and peer nodes must be stopped with
- <c>test_server:stop_node/1</c> for the node to be part of the
- coverage analysis, else the test server will not be able to
- fetch coverage data from the node.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>trace</c> option is used to turn on call trace on
- target and on slave or peer nodes started with
- <c>test_server:start_node/3</c>. <c>TraceSpec</c> can be the
- name of a trace information file, or a list of elements like
- the ones in a trace information file. Please turn to the
- reference manual for <c>test_server_ctrl:trc/1</c> for details
- about the trace information file.
- </p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>cross_cover_analyse(Level) -> ok</name>
- <name>cross_cover_analyse([Level]) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Analyse cover data collected from all tests</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>Analyse cover data collected from all tests.
- </p>
- <p>See test_server_ctrl:cross_cover_analyse/2
- </p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>r() -> ok</name>
- <name>r(Opts) -> ok</name>
- <name>r(SpecOrSuite) -> ok</name>
- <name>r(SpecOrSuite,Opts) -> ok</name>
- <name>r(Suite,Case) -> ok</name>
- <name>r(Suite,Case,Opts) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Run test suite or test case without <c>ts</c>installed</fsummary>
- <type>
- <v>SpecOrSuite = Spec | Suite</v>
- <v>Spec = string()</v>
- <d>"Name.spec" or "Name.spec.OsType", where OsType is vxworks</d>
- <v>Suite = atom()</v>
- <v>Case = atom()</v>
- <v>Opts = [Opt]</v>
- <v>Opt = {Cover,AppOrCoverFile} | {Cover,Application,CoverFile}</v>
- <v>Cover = cover | cover_details</v>
- <v>AppOrCoverFile = Application | CoverFile</v>
- <v>Application = atom()</v>
- <d>OTP application to cover compile</d>
- <v>CoverFile = string()</v>
- <d>Name of file listing modules to exclude from or include in cover compilation</d>
- </type>
- <desc>
- <p>This function can be used to run a test suites or test
- cases directly, without any of the additional features added
- by the test server framework. It is simply a wrapper function
- for the <c>add_dir</c>, <c>add_spec</c>, <c>add_module</c> and
- <c>add_case</c> functions in <c>test_server_ctrl</c>:
- </p>
- <p><c>r() -> add_dir(".")</c> <br></br>
-<c>r(Spec) -> add_spec(Spec)</c> <br></br>
-<c>r(Suite) -> add_module(Suite)</c> <br></br>
-<c>r(Suite,Case) -> add_case(Suite,Case)</c></p>
- <p>To use this function, it is required that the test suite is
- compiled and in the code path of the node where the function
- is called. The function can be used without having <c>ts</c>
- installed.
- </p>
- <p>For information about the <c>cover</c> and
- <c>cover_details</c> options, see <c>test_server_ctrl:cover/2/3</c>.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name>estone() -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
- <name>estone(Opts) -> ok</name>
- <fsummary>Runs the EStone test</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>This function runs the EStone test. It is a shortcut for
- running the test suite <c>estone_SUITE</c> in the
- <c>kernel</c> application.
- </p>
- <p><c>Opts</c> is the same as the <c>Opts</c> argument for the
- <c>ts:run</c> functions.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- </funcs>
-
- <section>
- <title>Makfile.src in Data Directory</title>
- <p>If a data directory contains code which must be compiled before
- the test suite is run, a makefile source called
- <c>Makefile.src</c> can be placed in the data directory. This file
- will be converted to a valid makefile by <c>ts:run/0/1/2/3/4</c>.
- </p>
- <p>The reason for generating the makefile is that you can use
- variables from the <c>variables</c> file which was generated by
- <c>ts:install/0/1/2</c>. All occurrences of <c>@Key@</c> in
- <c>Makefile.src</c> is substituted by the <c>Value</c> from
- <c>{Key,Value}</c> found in the <c>variables</c> file. Example:
- </p>
- <p>Cut from <c>variables</c>:</p>
- <code type="none">
- ...
- {'EMULATOR',"beam"}.
- {'CFLAGS',"-g -O2"}.
- {'LD',"$(CC) $(CFLAGS)"}.
- {'CC',"gcc"}.
- ...
- </code>
- <p><c>Makefile.src</c> for compiling erlang code could look
- something like this:</p>
- <code type="none">
- EFLAGS=+debug_info
-
- all: ordsets1.@EMULATOR@
-
- ordsets1.@EMULATOR@: ordsets1.erl
- erlc $(EFLAGS) ordsets1.erl
- </code>
- <p><c>Makefile.src</c> for compiling c code could look
- something like this:</p>
- <code type="none">
- CC = @CC@
- LD = @LD@
- CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ -I@erl_include@ @DEFS@
- CROSSLDFLAGS = @CROSSLDFLAGS@
-
- PROGS = nfs_check@exe@
-
- all: $(PROGS)
-
- nfs_check@exe@: nfs_check@obj@
- $(LD) $(CROSSLDFLAGS) -o nfs_check nfs_check@obj@ @LIBS@
-
- nfs_check@obj@: nfs_check.c
- $(CC) -c -o nfs_check@obj@ $(CFLAGS) nfs_check.c
- </code>
- </section>
-</erlref>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/why_test_chapter.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/why_test_chapter.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Why Test</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Goals</title>
- <p>It's not possible to prove that a program is correct by
- testing. On the contrary, it has been formally proven that it is
- impossible to prove programs in general by testing. Theoretical
- program proofs or plain examination of code may be viable options
- for those that wish to certify that a program is correct. The test
- server, as it is based on testing, cannot be used for
- certification. Its intended use is instead to (cost effectively)
- <em>find bugs</em>. A successful test suite is one that reveals a
- bug. If a test suite results in Ok, then we know very little that
- we didn't know before.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>What to test?</title>
- <p>There are many kinds of test suites. Some concentrate on
- calling every function in the interface to some module or
- server. Some other do the same, but uses all kinds of illegal
- parameters, and verifies that the server stays alive and rejects
- the requests with reasonable error codes. Some test suites
- simulate an application (typically consisting of a few modules of
- an application), some try to do tricky requests in general, some
- test suites even test internal functions.
- </p>
- <p>Another interesting category of test suites are the ones that
- check that fixed bugs don't reoccur. When a bugfix is introduced,
- a test case that checks for that specific bug should be written
- and submitted to the affected test suite(s).
- </p>
- <p>Aim for finding bugs. Write whatever test that has the highest
- probability of finding a bug, now or in the future. Concentrate
- more on the critical parts. Bugs in critical subsystems are a lot
- more expensive than others.
- </p>
- <p>Aim for functionality testing rather than implementation
- details. Implementation details change quite often, and the test
- suites should be long lived. Often implementation details differ
- on different platforms and versions. If implementation details
- have to be tested, try to factor them out into separate test
- cases. Later on these test cases may be rewritten, or just
- skipped.
- </p>
- <p>Also, aim for testing everything once, no less, no more. It's
- not effective having every test case fail just because one
- function in the interface changed.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>How much to test</title>
- <p>There is a unix shell script that counts the number of non
- commented words (lines and characters too) of source code in each
- application's test directory and divides with the number of such
- source words in the src directory. This is a measure of how much
- test code there is.
- </p>
- <p>There has been much debate over how much test code, compared to
- production code, should be written in a project. More test code
- finds more bugs, but test code needs to be maintained just like
- the production code, and it's expensive to write it in the first
- place. In several articles from relatively mature software
- organizations that I have read, the amount of test code has been
- about the same as the production code. </p>
- <p>In OTP, at the time of
- writing, few applications come even close to this, some have no
- test code at all.
- </p>
-
- <section>
- <title>Full coverage</title>
- <p>It is possible to cover compile the modules being tested
- before running the test suites. Doing so displays which branches
- of the code that are tested by the test suite, and which are
- not. Many use this as a measure of a good test suite. When every
- single line of source code is covered once by the test suite,
- the test suite is finished.
- </p>
- <p>A coverage of 100% still proves nothing, though. It doesn't
- mean that the code is error free, that everything is tested. For
- instance, if a function contains a division, it has to be
- executed at least twice. Once with parameters that cause
- division by zero, and once with other parameters.
- </p>
- <p>High degree of coverage is good of course, it means that no
- major parts of the code has been left untested. It's another
- question whether it's cost effective. You're only likely to find
- 50% more bugs when going from 67% to 100% coverage, but the work
- (cost) is maybe 200% as large, or more, because reaching all of
- those obscure branches is usually complicated.
- </p>
- <p>Again, the reason for testing with the test server is to find
- bugs, not to create certificates of valid code. Maximizing the
- number of found bugs per hour probably means not going for 100%
- coverage. For some module the optimum may be 70%, for some other
- maybe 250%. 100% shouldn't be a goal in itself.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>User interface testing</title>
- <p>It is very difficult to do sensible testing of user
- interfaces, especially the graphic ones. The test server has
- some support for capturing the text I/O that goes to the user,
- but none for graphics. There are several tools on the market
- that help with this.</p>
- </section>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/write_framework_chapter.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/write_framework_chapter.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Write you own test server framework</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>write_framework_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <p>The test server controller can be interfaced from the operating
- system or from within Erlang. The nature of your new framework
- will decide which interface to use. If you want your framework to
- start a new node for each test, the operating system interface is
- very convenient. If your node is already started, going from
- within Erlang might be a more flexible solution.
- </p>
- <p>The two methods are described below.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Interfacing the test server controller from Erlang</title>
- <p>Using the test server from Erlang means that you have to start
- the test server and then add test jobs. Use
- <c>test_server_ctrl:start/0</c> to start the test server, and
- <c>test_server_ctrl:stop/0</c> to stop it.
- </p>
-
- <section>
- <title>Adding test jobs</title>
- <p>There are many commands available for adding test cases to
- the test server's job queue: <br></br>
-</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Single test case <br></br>
-<c>test_server_ctrl:add_case/2/3</c></item>
- <item>Multiple test cases from same suite <br></br>
-<c>test_server_ctrl:add_cases/2/3</c></item>
- <item>Test suite module or modules <br></br>
-<c>test_server_ctrl:add_module/1/2</c></item>
- <item>Some or all test suite modules in a directory <br></br>
-<c>test_server_ctrl:add_dir/2/3</c></item>
- <item>Test cases specified in a test specification file <br></br>
-<c>test_server_ctrl:add_spec/1</c></item>
- </list>
- <p>All test suites are given a unique name, which is usually
- given when the test suite is added to the job queue. In some
- cases, a default name is used, as in the case when a module is
- added without a specified name. The test job name is used to
- store logfiles, which are stored in the `name.logs' directory
- under the current directory.
- </p>
- <p>See the reference manual for details about the functions for
- adding test jobs.
- </p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Interfacing the test server controller from the operating system.</title>
- <p>The function <c>run_test/1</c> is your interface in the test
- server controller if you wish to use it from the operating
- system. You simply start an erlang shell and invoke this function
- with the <c>-s</c> option. <c>run_test/1</c> starts the test
- server, runs the test specified by the command line and stops the
- test server. The argument to <c>run_test/1</c> is a list of
- command line flags, typically
- <c>['KEY1', Value1, 'KEY2', Value2, ...]</c>.
- The valid command line flags are listed in the reference manual
- for <c>test_server_ctrl</c>.
- </p>
- <p>A typical command line may look like this <br></br>
-<c>erl -noshell -s test_server_ctrl run_test KEY1 Value1 KEY2 Value2 ... -s erlang halt</c></p>
- <p>Or make an alias (this is for unix/tcsh) <br></br>
-<c>alias erl_test 'erl -noshell -s test_server_ctrl run_test \!* -s erlang halt'</c></p>
- <p>And then use it like this <br></br>
-<c>erl_test KEY1 Value1 KEY2 Value2 ...</c> <br></br>
-</p>
-
- <section>
- <title>An Example</title>
- <p>An example of starting a test run from the command line <br></br>
-</p>
- <p><c>erl -name test_srv -noshell -rsh /home/super/otp/bin/ctrsh </c> <br></br>
-<c>-pa /clearcase/otp/erts/lib/kernel/test </c> <br></br>
-<c>-boot start_sasl -sasl errlog_type error </c> <br></br>
-<c>-s test_server_ctrl run_test SPEC kernel.spec -s erlang halt</c> <br></br>
-</p>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Framework callback functions</title>
- <p>By defining the environment variable
- <c>TEST_SERVER_FRAMEWORK</c> to a module name, the framework
- callback functions can be used. The framework callback functions
- are called by the test server in order let the framework interact
- with the execution of the tests and to keep the framework upto
- date with information about the test progress.
- </p>
- <p>The framework callback functions are described in the reference
- manual for <c>test_server_ctrl</c>.
- </p>
- <p>Note that this topic is in an early stage of development, and
- changes might occur.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Other concerns</title>
- <p>Some things to think about when writing you own test server
- framework:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item><c>emulator version</c> - Make sure that the intended
- version of the emulator is started.
- </item>
- <item><c>operating system path</c> - If test cases use port
- programs, make sure the paths are correct.
- </item>
- <item><c>recompilation</c> - Make sure all test suites are fresh
- compiled.
- </item>
- <item><c>test_server.hrl</c> - Make sure the
- <c>test_server.hrl</c> file is in the include path when
- compiling test suites.
- </item>
- <item><c>running applications</c> - Some test suites require
- some applications to be running (e.g. sasl). Make sure they are
- started.
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
-
-<chapter>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>Writing Test Suites</title>
- <prepared>Siri Hansen</prepared>
- <docno></docno>
- <date></date>
- <rev></rev>
- <file>write_test_chapter.xml</file>
- </header>
-
- <section>
- <title>Support for test suite authors</title>
- <p>The <c>test_server</c> module provides some useful functions
- to support the test suite author. This includes:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>Starting and stopping slave or peer nodes</item>
- <item>Capturing and checking stdout output</item>
- <item>Retrieving and flushing process message queue</item>
- <item>Watchdog timers</item>
- <item>Checking that a function crashes</item>
- <item>Checking that a function succeeds at least m out of n times</item>
- <item>Checking .app files</item>
- </list>
- <p>Please turn to the reference manual for the <c>test_server</c>
- module for details about these functions.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test suites</title>
- <p>A test suite is an ordinary Erlang module that contains test
- cases. It's recommended that the module has a name on the form
- *_SUITE.erl. Otherwise, the directory function will not find the
- modules (by default).
- </p>
- <p>For some of the test server support, the test server include
- file <c>test_server.hrl</c> must be included. Never include it
- with the full path, for portability reasons. Use the compiler
- include directive instead.
- </p>
- <p>The special function <c>all(suite)</c> in each module is called
- to get the test specification for that module. The function
- typically returns a list of test cases in that module, but any
- test specification could be returned. Please see the chapter
- about test specifications for details about this.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Init per test case</title>
- <p>In each test suite module, the functions
- <c>init_per_testcase/2</c> and <c>end_per_testcase/2</c> must be
- implemented.
- </p>
- <p><c>init_per_testcase</c> is called before each test case in the
- test suite, giving a (limited) possibility for initialization.
- </p>
- <p><c>end_per_testcase/2</c> is called after each test case is
- completed, giving a possibility to clean up.
- </p>
- <p>The first argument to these functions is the name of the test
- case. This can be used to do individual initialization and cleanup for
- each test cases.
- </p>
- <p>The second argument is a list of tuples called
- <c>Config</c>. The first element in a <c>Config</c> tuple
- should be an atom - a key value to be used for searching.
- <c>init_per_testcase/2</c> may modify the <c>Config</c>
- parameter or just return it as is. Whatever is retuned by
- <c>init_per_testcase/2</c> is given as <c>Config</c> parameter to
- the test case itself.
- </p>
- <p>The return value of <c>end_per_testcase/2</c> is ignored by the
- test server.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Test cases</title>
- <p>The smallest unit that the test server is concerned with is a
- test case. Each test case can in turn test many things, for
- example make several calls to the same interface function with
- different parameters.
- </p>
- <p>It is possible to put many or few tests into each test
- case. How many things each test case tests is up to the author,
- but here are some things to keep in mind.
- </p>
- <p>Very small test cases often leads to more code, since
- initialization has to be duplicated. Larger code, especially with
- a lot of duplication, increases maintenance and reduces
- readability.
- </p>
- <p>Larger test cases make it harder to tell what went wrong if it
- fails, and force us to skip larger portions of test code if a
- specific part fails. These effects are accentuated when running on
- multiple platforms because test cases often have to be skipped.
- </p>
- <p>A test case generally consists of three parts, the
- documentation part, the specification part and the execution
- part. These are implemented as three clauses of the same function.
- </p>
- <p>The documentation clause matches the argument '<c>doc</c>' and
- returns a list for strings describing what the test case tests.
- </p>
- <p>The specification clause matches the argument '<c>suite</c>'
- and returns the test specification for this particular test
- case. If the test specification is an empty list, this indicates
- that the test case is a leaf test case, i.e. one to be executed.
- </p>
- <p>The execution clause implements the actual test case. It takes
- one argument, <c>Config</c>, which contain configuration
- information like <c>data_dir</c> and <c>priv_dir</c>. See <seealso marker="#data_priv_dir">Data and Private Directories</seealso> for
- more information about these.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>Config</c> variable can also contain the
- <c>nodenames</c> key, if requested by the <c>require_nodenames</c>
- command in the test suite specification file. All <c>Config</c>
- items should be extracted using the <c>?config</c> macro. This is
- to ensure future compatibility if the <c>Config</c> format
- changes. See the reference manual for <c>test_server</c> for
- details about this macro.
- </p>
- <p>If the execution clause crashes or exits, it is considered a
- failure. If it returns <c>{skip,Reason}</c>, the test case is
- considered skipped. If it returns <c>{comment,String}</c>,
- the string will be added in the 'Comment' field on the HTML
- result page. If the execution clause returns anything else, it is
- considered a success, unless it is <c>{'EXIT',Reason}</c> or
- <c>{'EXIT',Pid,Reason}</c> which can't be distinguished from a
- crash, and thus will be considered a failure.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <marker id="data_priv_dir"></marker>
- <title>Data and Private Directories</title>
- <p>The data directory (<c>data_dir</c>) is the directory where the test
- module has its own files needed for the testing. A compiler test
- case may have source files to feed into the compiler, a release
- upgrade test case may have some old and new release of
- something. A graphics test case may have some icons and a test
- case doing a lot of math with bignums might store the correct
- answers there. The name of the <c>data_dir</c> is the the name of
- the test suite and then "_data". For example,
- <c>"some_path/foo_SUITE.beam"</c> has the data directory
- <c>"some_path/foo_SUITE_data/"</c>.
- </p>
- <p>The <c>priv_dir</c> is the test suite's private directory. This
- directory should be used when a test case needs to write to
- files. The name of the private directory is generated by the test
- server, which also creates the directory.
- </p>
- <p><em>Warning:</em> Do not depend on current directory to be
- writable, or to point to anything in particular. All scratch files
- are to be written in the <c>priv_dir</c>, and all data files found
- in <c>data_dir</c>. If the current directory has to be something
- specific, it must be set with <c>file:set_cwd/1</c>.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Execution environment</title>
- <p>Each time a test case is about to be executed, a new process is
- created with <c>spawn_link</c>. This is so that the test case will
- have no dependencies to earlier tests, with respect to process flags,
- process links, messages in the queue, other processes having registered
- the process, etc. As little as possible is done to change the initial
- context of the process (what is created by plain spawn). Here is a
- list of differences:
- </p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>It has a link to the test server. If this link is removed,
- the test server will not know when the test case is finished,
- just wait infinitely.
- </item>
- <item>It often holds a few items in the process dictionary, all
- with names starting with '<c>test_server_</c>'. This is to keep
- track of if/where a test case fails.
- </item>
- <item>There is a top-level catch. All of the test case code is
- catched, so that the location of a crash can be reported back to
- the test server. If the test case process is killed by another
- process (thus the catch code is never executed) the test server
- is not able to tell where the test case was executing.
- </item>
- <item>It has a special group leader implemented by the test
- server. This way the test server is able to capture the io that
- the test case provokes. This is also used by some of the test
- server support functions.
- </item>
- </list>
- <p>There is no time limit for a test case, unless the test case
- itself imposes such a limit, by calling
- <c>test_server:timetrap/1</c> for example. The call can be made
- in each test case, or in the <c>init_per_testcase/2</c>
- function. Make sure to call the corresponding
- <c>test_server:timetrap_cancel/1</c> function as well, e.g in the
- <c>end_per_testcase/2</c> function, or else the test cases will
- always fail.
- </p>
- </section>
-
-</chapter>
-