s4-rootdse: improved operations error messages

[amitay/samba.git] / selftest / README

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@@ -3,15 +3,24 @@
 This directory contains test scripts that are useful for running a
 bunch of tests all at once. 
 
+There are two parts to this: 
+
+ * The test runner (selftest/selftest.pl)
+ * The test formatter
+
+selftest.pl simply outputs subunit, which can then be formatted or analyzed 
+by tools that understand the subunit protocol. One of these tools is 
+format-subunit, which is used by default as part of "make test".
+
 Available testsuites
 ====================
 The available testsuites are obtained from a script, usually 
-selftest/samba{3,4}_tests.sh. This script should for each testsuite output 
+source{3,4}/selftest/tests.sh. This script should for each testsuite output 
 the name of the test, the command to run and the environment that should be 
 provided. Use the included "plantest" function to generate the required output.
 
 Testsuite behaviour
-================================
+===================
 
 Exit code
 ------------
@@ -28,44 +37,39 @@ This protocol works by writing simple messages to standard output. Any
 messages that can not be interpreted by this protocol are considered comments 
 for the last announced test.
 
-Accepted commands are:
+For a full description of the subunit protocol, see ../lib/subunit/README.
 
-test
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-test: <NAME>
+The following commands are Samba extensions to Subunit:
 
-Announce that a new test with the specified name is starting
-
-success
+testsuite-count
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-success: <NAME> 
+testsuite-count: number
 
-Announce that the test with the specified name is done and ran successfully.
+Announce the number of tests that is going to be run.
 
-failure
+start-testsuite
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-failure: <NAME> 
-failure: <NAME> [ REASON ]
+start-testsuite: name
+
+The testsuite name is used as prefix for all containing tests.
+
+skip-testsuite
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+skip-testsuite: name
 
-Announce that the test with the specified name failed. Optionally, it is 
-possible to specify a reason it failed.
+Mark the testsuite with the specified name as skipped.
 
-skip
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-skip: <NAME>
-skip: <NAME> [ REASON ]
+testsuite-success
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+testsuite-success: name
 
-Announce that the test with the specified name was skipped. Optionally a 
-reason can be specified.
+Indicate that the testsuite has succeeded successfully.
 
-knownfail
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-knownfail: <NAME>
-knownfail: <NAME> [ REASON ]
+testsuite-fail
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+testsuite-fail: name
 
-Announce that the test with the specified name was run and failed as expected.
-Alternatively it is also possible to simply return "failure:" here but 
-specify in the samba4-knownfailures file that it is failing.
+Indicate that a testsuite has failed.
 
 Environments
 ============