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
  • Running tests with an external runner
  • Runner outputs
  • Running simple tests with arguments
  • 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
  • Test execution environment
• 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
• 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
• Understanding the test discovery (Avocado Loaders)
  • Test Loaders
  • How Loaders discover tests
  • The order of test loaders
  • Basic Avocado Loaders
• Advanced usage
  • Test Runner Selection
  • Wrap executables run by tests
• What’s next?