Re: [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files

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On 6/8/21 10:20 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Update the documentation to outline the new requirements for test files
so that we can generate group files during build.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ok, that sounds about right
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
  README |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/README b/README
index 048491a6..ab298ca9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Running tests:
      - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
      - ./check '*/06?'
      - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
-      See the 'group' file for details on groups
+      See the tests/*/group.list files after building xfstests to learn about
+      each test's group memberships.
      - If you want to run all tests regardless of what group they are in
        (including dangerous tests), use the "all" group: ./check -g all
      - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
@@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ Test script environment:
When developing a new test script keep the following things in
      mind.  All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
-    available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
-    sourced.
+    available to the script once the "common/preamble" file has been
+    sourced and the "_begin_fstest" function has been called.
1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory. If you want to
  	do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do
@@ -249,6 +250,18 @@ Test script environment:
  	  in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
  	  and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
+ 6. Test group membership: Each test can be associated with any number
+	of groups for convenient selection of subsets of tests.  Test names
+	can be any sequence of non-whitespace characters.  Test authors
+	associate a test with groups by passing the names of those groups as
+	arguments to the _begin_fstest function:
+
+	_begin_fstest auto quick subvol snapshot
+
+	The build process scans test files for _begin_fstest invocations and
+	compiles the group list from that information.  In other words, test
+	files must call _begin_fstest or they will not be run.
+
  Verified output:
Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated





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