The functional tests currently don't allow a single test to be
selected for execution by dotted name, e.g:
./build/run tests/functional/ppc64/test_pseries.py PseriesMachine.test_ppc64_linux_boot
^
The issue is that the testcase.py main function passes the test
module's name as the second argument to unittest.main(), which makes
it ignore all other positional arguments (presumably because the
module is already the superset of all tests).
After commit cac08383f0 ("tests/functional: expose sys.argv to
unittest.main"), the situation improves by passing the rest of the
argv from the command line invocation into unittest.main(), but it
still doesn't fix the issue. The short form options are now accepted,
so the -k option could be used to filter for a pattern, which is
useful, but not the same as listing the test names.
Fix this by passing the test module name via the "module" argument to
unittest.main() and stop touching argv. The ways of invoking tests are
now as per unittests documentation (-k still works):
Examples:
test_pseries.py - run default set of tests
test_pseries.py MyTestSuite - run suite 'MyTestSuite'
test_pseries.py MyTestCase.testSomething - run MyTestCase.testSomething
test_pseries.py MyTestCase - run all 'test*' test methods in MyTestCase
Note that ever since we've been programatically passing the module
name to unittest.main(), the usage 'test_pseries.py test_pseries' was
never valid. It used to "work" just the same as 'test_pseries.py
foobar' would. After this patch, that usage results in an error.
Also note that testcase.py:main() pertains to running the test module
that invoked it via QemuSystemTest.main(), i.e. module == __main__. So
the 'discover' usage of unittest doesn't apply here, the module is
already discovered because that's where this code was called from to
begin with. This patch could just as well call unittest.main() instead
of unittest.main(test_module), but the latter provides nicer error
messages prefixed with the module name.
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20260102181700.11886-1-farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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