Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:43:03PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/29/18 11:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > gtester is deprecated by upstream glib and it does not support tests
> > that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases.
> > 
> > glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support.  We do not support
> > Automake, but we can copy the code that beautifies the TAP output and
> > use it.  I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk one,
> > in order to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package, but I'm open to suggestions
> > about which language to use.
> 
> I'm less familiar with the TAP protocol than I'd like to admit, but I did
> find:
> 
> https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/
> 
> which corroborates your claim that switching to Automake's TAP parser is
> indeed a recommended approach to avoid the now-deprecated gtester.

FYI, for docs about the TAP protocol see:

   https://testanything.org/tap-specification.html

I've always liked the TAP protocol approach to test output where you print
an ok/not ok  status for each piece of the test, as opposed to assertion
style tests where you just abort at the first piece that fails. 

Regards,
Daniel
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