Avocado User’s Guide

• About Avocado
• Installing
  • Installing from PyPI
  • Installing from packages
  • Installing from source code
• Introduction
  • Avocado Hello World
  • Running a job with multiple tests
  • Using a different runner
  • Interrupting tests
  • The hint files
  • Ignoring missing test references
  • Runner outputs
  • Sysinfo collection
• Basic Concepts
  • Test Resolution
  • Identifiers and references
  • Test types
  • Test statuses
  • Exit codes
• Basic Operations
  • Job Replay
  • Job Diff
  • Listing tests
• Results Specification
  • Test execution instances specification
• Filtering tests by tags
  • Multiple tags (AND vs OR)
  • Including tests without tags
  • Using further categorization with keys and values
• Configuring
  • Config file parsing order
  • Configuring via command-line
  • Parsing order recap
  • Order of precedence for values used in tests
  • Supported data types when configuring Avocado
  • Complete Configuration Reference
• Managing Dependencies
  • Test workflow with dependencies
  • Defining a test dependency
  • Supported types of dependencies
• Managing Assets
  • Listing assets
  • Registering assets
  • Fetching assets from instrumented tests
  • Removing assets
  • Removing by overall cache limit
  • Changing the default cache dirs
• Avocado Data Directories
• Avocado logging system
  • Tweaking the UI
  • Storing custom logs
• Understanding the plugin system
  • Listing plugins
  • Disabling a plugin
  • Plugin execution order
  • Pre and post plugins
• Advanced usage
  • Custom Runnable Identifier
  • Test Runner Selection
  • Running tests with an external runner
• What’s next?