meson's "test()" function provides a "should_fail: bool" argument that
checks for a command to exit with a non-zero exit code instead of the usual
zero exit code to signal success. If the program under test does so, it is
recorded as "EXPECTEDFAIL" instead of "OK". While there is an argument to be
made that the program under test failed as expected, the test in itself is
successful and should be recorded as such.
Before:
$ meson test
...
151/300 libvirt:bin / libvirtd fail with missing config EXPECTEDFAIL 0.03s exit status 1
...
Ok: 299
Expected Fail: 1
Fail: 0
Unexpected Pass: 0
Skipped: 0
Timeout: 0
After:
$ meson test
...
151/300 libvirt:bin / libvirtd fail with missing config OK 0.03s
...
Ok: 300
Expected Fail: 0
Fail: 0
Unexpected Pass: 0
Skipped: 0
Timeout: 0
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tests/expected-fail | 13 +++++++++++++
tests/meson.build | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 tests/expected-fail
diff --git a/tests/expected-fail b/tests/expected-fail
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..85738c95dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/expected-fail
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# meson's "test()" function provides a "should_fail: bool" argument that
+# checks for a command to exit with a non-zero exit code instead of the usual
+# zero exit code to signal success. If the program under test does so, it is
+# recorded as "EXPECTEDFAIL" instead of "OK". While there is an argument to be
+# made that the program under test failed as expected, the test in itself is
+# successful and should be recorded as such.
+
+if "$@"
+then
+ exit 1
+fi
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
index 0d76d37959..0ebcdc1496 100644
--- a/tests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -725,9 +725,8 @@ endif
if conf.has('WITH_LIBVIRTD')
test('libvirtd fail with missing config',
- libvirtd_prog,
- args: [ '--config=no-such-conf', '--timeout=5' ],
- should_fail: true,
+ find_program('expected-fail'),
+ args: [ libvirtd_prog, '--config=no-such-conf', '--timeout=5' ],
suite: 'bin',
)
--
2.48.1
