On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 4:25 PM Rae Moar <rmoar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are looking to further standardise the output format used by kernel > test frameworks like kselftest and KUnit. Thus far we have used the > TAP (Test Anything Protocol) specification, but it has been extended > in many different ways, so we would like to agree on a common "Kernel > TAP" (KTAP) format to resolve these differences. Thus, below is a > draft of a specification of KTAP. Note that this specification is > largely based on the current format of test results for KUnit tests. > > Additionally, this specification was heavily inspired by the KTAP > specification draft by Tim Bird > (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/CY4PR13MB1175B804E31E502221BC8163FD830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/). > However, there are some notable differences to his specification. One > such difference is the format of nested tests is more fully specified > in the following specification. However, they are specified in a way > which may not be compatible with many kselftest nested tests. Thanks for putting this together, Rae! I would definitely like to see us moving forward with standardizing fully on the KTAP spec. I am surprised to not yet see any comments here. I was thinking that this might make a good BoF topic at LPC, but I guess that depends on how interested people are in this topic.
