GLib Plugin

This optional plugin enables Avocado to list and run tests written using the GLib Test Framework.

Tip

To see the GLIB tests, it’s necessary to execute the binaries. For safety reasons, this is not enable by default in Avocado. Please edit the unsafe configuration entry in the [plugins.glib] section to enable it. Also notice that a glib.conf file ships with Avocado.

To list the tests, just provide the test file path:

$ avocado list --loaders glib -- tests/check-qnum
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_uint
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_double
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int64
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_int
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_uint
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/to_qnum
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/to_string

Notice that you have to be explicit about the test loader you’re using, otherwise, since the test files are executable binaries, the FileLoader will report the file as a SIMPLE test, making the whole test suite to be executed as one test only from the Avocado perspective.

The Avocado test reference syntax to filter the tests you want to execute is also available in this plugin:

$ avocado list --loaders glib -- tests/check-qnum:int
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_uint
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int64
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_int
GLIB tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_uint

To run the tests, just switch from list to run:

$ avocado run --loaders glib -- tests/check-qnum:int
JOB ID     : 380a2b3d65b3fce9f8062d84f8635712d6e03133
JOB LOG    : $HOME/avocado/job-results/job-2018-02-23T18.02-380a2b3/job.log
 (1/5) tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int: PASS (0.03 s)
 (2/5) tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_uint: PASS (0.03 s)
 (3/5) tests/check-qnum:/qnum/from_int64: PASS (0.04 s)
 (4/5) tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_int: PASS (0.03 s)
 (5/5) tests/check-qnum:/qnum/get_uint: PASS (0.03 s)
RESULTS    : PASS 5 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0
JOB TIME   : 0.46 s
JOB HTML   : $HOME/avocado/job-results/job-2018-02-23T18.02-380a2b3/results.html