Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/20] Acceptance tests: use "arch:" tag to filter target specific tests

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:57:39 -0500
Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:

> Currently, the only test that contains some target architecture
> information is "boot_linux_console.py" which test contains a "x86_64"

But there are two others changed by you here, aren't there?

> tag.  But that tag is not respected in the default execution, that is,
> "make check-acceptance" doesn't do anything with it.
> 
> That said, even the target architecture handling currently present in
> the "avocado_qemu.Test" class, class is pretty limited.  For instance,

s/class, class/class/

> by default, it chooses a target based on the host architecture.
> 
> Because the original implementation of the tags feature in Avocado did
> not include any time of namespace or "key:val" mechanism, no tag has
> relation to another tag.  The new implementation of the tags feature
> from version 67.0 onwards, allows "key:val" tags, and because of that,
> a test can be classified with a tag in a given key.  For instance, the
> new proposed version of the "boot_linux_console.py" test, which
> downloads and attempts to run a x86_64 kernel, is now tagged as:
> 
>   :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
> 
> This means that it can be filtered (out) when no x86_64 target is
> available.  At the same time, tests that don't have a "arch:" tag,
> will not be filtered out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/Makefile.include                 | 3 +++
>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 2 +-
>  tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py       | 2 +-
>  tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py     | 2 +-
>  tests/requirements.txt                 | 2 +-
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/Makefile.include b/tests/Makefile.include
> index 93ea42553e..633992603d 100644
> --- a/tests/Makefile.include
> +++ b/tests/Makefile.include
> @@ -1090,6 +1090,7 @@ TESTS_RESULTS_DIR=$(BUILD_DIR)/tests/results
>  # Any number of command separated loggers are accepted.  For more
>  # information please refer to "avocado --help".
>  AVOCADO_SHOW=app
> +AVOCADO_TAGS=$(patsubst %-softmmu,-t arch:%, $(filter 
> %-softmmu,$(TARGET_DIRS)))
>  
>  ifneq ($(findstring v2,"v$(PYTHON_VERSION)"),v2)
>  $(TESTS_VENV_DIR): $(TESTS_VENV_REQ)
> @@ -1115,6 +1116,8 @@ check-acceptance: check-venv $(TESTS_RESULTS_DIR)
>       $(call quiet-command, \
>              $(TESTS_VENV_DIR)/bin/python -m avocado \
>              --show=$(AVOCADO_SHOW) run 
> --job-results-dir=$(TESTS_RESULTS_DIR) \
> +            --filter-by-tags-include-empty 
> --filter-by-tags-include-empty-key \
> +            $(AVOCADO_TAGS) \
>              --failfast=on $(SRC_PATH)/tests/acceptance, \
>              "AVOCADO", "tests/acceptance")
>  
> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py 
> b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> index 98324f7591..46b20bdfe2 100644
> --- a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> +++ b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class BootLinuxConsole(Test):
>      and the kernel command line is properly passed from QEMU to the kernel
>  
>      :avocado: enable
> -    :avocado: tags=x86_64
> +    :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
>      """
>  
>      timeout = 60
> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py 
> b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py
> index 737355c2ef..c75e29be70 100644
> --- a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py
> +++ b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class LinuxInitrd(Test):
>      Checks QEMU evaluates correctly the initrd file passed as -initrd option.
>  
>      :avocado: enable
> -    :avocado: tags=x86_64
> +    :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
>      """
>  
>      timeout = 60
> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py 
> b/tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py
> index ce990250d8..3b280e7fc3 100644
> --- a/tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py
> +++ b/tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class VirtioVersionCheck(Test):
>      `disable-legacy`.
>  
>      :avocado: enable
> -    :avocado: tags=x86_64
> +    :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
>      """
>  
>      # just in case there are failures, show larger diff:
> diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
> index 64c6e27a94..002ded6a22 100644
> --- a/tests/requirements.txt
> +++ b/tests/requirements.txt
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>  # Add Python module requirements, one per line, to be installed
>  # in the tests/venv Python virtual environment. For more info,
>  # refer to: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#id1
> -avocado-framework==65.0
> +avocado-framework==68.0

I think you should explain why you bump the required version to 68.0
instead of the 67.0 you mention above.