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Kyuafile — Test suite description files
SYNOPSIS
atf_test_program(string name, [string metadata]);
current_kyuafile();
fs.basename(string path);
fs.dirname(string path);
fs.exists(string path);
fs.files(string path);
fs.is_absolute(string path);
fs.join(string path, string path);
include(string path);
plain_test_program(string name, [string metadata]);
syntax(int version);
tap_test_program(string name, [string metadata]);
test_suite(string name);
DESCRIPTION
A test suite is a collection of test programs and is represented by a
hierarchical layout of test binaries on the file system. Any subtree of
the file system can represent a test suite, provided that it includes one
or more Kyuafiles, which are the test suite definition files.
A Kyuafile is a Lua script whose purpose is to describe the structure of
the test suite it belongs to. To do so, the script has access to a col‐
lection of special functions provided by kyua(1) as described in Helper
functions.
File versioning
Every Kyuafile file starts with a call to syntax(int version). This call
determines the specific schema used by the file so that future backwards-
incompatible modifications to the file can be introduced.
Any new Kyuafile file should set version to ‘2’.
Test suite definition
If the Kyuafile registers any test programs, the Kyuafile must define the
name of the test suite the test programs belong to by using the
test_suite() function at the very beginning of the file.
The test suite name provided in the test_suite() call tells kyua(1) which
set of configuration variables from kyua.conf(5) to pass to the test pro‐
grams at run time.
Test program registration
A Kyuafile can register test programs by means of a variety of
*_test_program() functions, all of which take the name of a test program
and a set of optional metadata properties that describe such test pro‐
gram.
The test programs to be registered must live in the current directory; in
other words, the various *_test_program() calls cannot reference test
programs in other directories. The rationale for this is to force all
Kyuafile files to be self-contained, and to simplify their internal rep‐
resentation.
ATF test programs are those that use the atf(7) libraries. They can be
registered with the atf_test_program() table constructor. This function
takes the name of the test program and a collection of optional metadata
settings for all the test cases in the test program. Any metadata prop‐
erties defined by the test cases themselves override the metadata values
defined here.
Plain test programs are those that return 0 on success and non-0 on fail‐
ure; in general, most test programs (even those that use fancy unit-test‐
ing libraries) behave this way and thus also qualify as plain test pro‐
grams. They can be registered with the plain_test_program() table con‐
structor. This function takes the name of the test program, an optional
test_suite name that overrides the global test suite name, and a collec‐
tion of optional metadata settings for the test program.
TAP test programs are those that implement the Test Anything Protocol.
They can be registered with the tap_test_program() table constructor.
This function takes the name of the test program and a collection of
optional metadata settings for the test program.
The following metadata properties can be passed to any test program defi‐
nition:
allowed_architectures
Whitespace-separated list of machine architecture names allowed
by the test. If empty or not defined, the test is allowed to
run on any machine architecture.
allowed_platforms
Whitespace-separated list of machine platform names allowed by
the test. If empty or not defined, the test is allowed to run
on any machine platform.
custom.NAME
Custom variable defined by the test where ‘NAME’ denotes the
name of the variable. These variables are useful to tag your
tests with information specific to your project. The values of
such variables are propagated all the way from the tests to the
results files and later to any generated reports.
Note that if the name happens to have dashes or any other spe‐
cial characters in it, you will have to use a special Lua syn‐
tax to define the property. Refer to the EXAMPLES section
below for clarification.
description
Textual description of the test.
is_exclusive
If true, indicates that this test program cannot be executed
along any other programs at the same time. Test programs that
affect global system state, such as those that modify the value
of a sysctl(8) setting, must set themselves as exclusive to
prevent failures due to race conditions. Defaults to false.
required_configs
Whitespace-separated list of configuration variables that the
test requires to be defined before it can run.
required_disk_space
Amount of available disk space that the test needs to run suc‐
cessfully.
required_files
Whitespace-separated list of paths that the test requires to
exist before it can run.
required_memory
Amount of physical memory that the test needs to run success‐
fully.
required_programs
Whitespace-separated list of basenames or absolute paths point‐
ing to executable binaries that the test requires to exist
before it can run.
required_user
If empty, the test has no restrictions on the calling user for
it to run. If set to ‘unprivileged’, the test needs to not run
as root. If set to ‘root’, the test must run as root.
timeout
Amount of seconds that the test is allowed to execute before
being killed.
Recursion
To reference test programs in another subdirectory, a different Kyuafile
must be created in that directory and it must be included into the origi‐
nal Kyuafile by means of the include() function.
include() may only be called with a relative path and with at most one
directory component. This is by design: Kyua uses the file system struc‐
ture as the layout of the test suite definition. Therefore, each subdi‐
rectory in a test suite must include its own Kyuafile and each Kyuafile
can only descend into the Kyuafiles of immediate subdirectories.
If you need to source a Kyuafile located in disjoint parts of your file
system namespace, you will have to create a ‘shadow tree’ using symbolic
links and possibly helper Kyuafiles to plug the various subdirectories
together. See the EXAMPLES section below for details.
Note that each file is processed in its own Lua environment: there is no
mechanism to pass state from one file to the other. The reason for this
is that there is no such thing as a “top-level” Kyuafile in a test suite:
the user has to be able to run the test suite from any directory in a
given hierarchy, and this execution must not depend on files that live in
parent directories.
Top-level Kyuafile
Every system has a top directory into which test suites get installed.
The default is /usr/local/tests. Within this directory live test suites,
each of which is in an independent subdirectory. Each subdirectory can
be provided separately by independent third-party packages.
Kyua allows running all the installed test suites at once in order to
provide comprehensive cross-component reports. In order to do this,
there is a special file in the top directory that knows how to inspect
the subdirectories in search for other Kyuafiles and include them.
The FILES section includes more details on where this file lives.
Helper functions
The ‘base’, ‘string’, and ‘table’ Lua modules are fully available in the
context of a Kyuafile.
The following extra functions are provided by Kyua:
string current_kyuafile()
Returns the absolute path to the current Kyuafile.
string fs.basename(string path)
Returns the last component of the given path.
string fs.dirname(string path)
Returns the given path without its last component or a dot if
the path has a single component.
bool fs.exists(string path)
Checks if the given path exists. If the path is not absolute,
it is relative to the directory containing the Kyuafile in
which the call to this function occurs.
iterator fs.files(string path)
Opens a directory for scanning of its entries. The returned
iterator yields an entry on each call, and the entry is simply
the file name. If the path is not absolute, it is relative to
the directory containing the Kyuafile in which the call to this
function occurs.
is_absolute fs.is_absolute(string path)
Returns true if the given path is absolute; false otherwise.
join fs.join(string path, string path)
Concatenates the two paths. The second path cannot be abso‐
lute.
FILES
/usr/local/tests/Kyuafile.
Top-level Kyuafile for the current system.
/usr/local/share/examples/kyua/Kyuafile.top.
Sample file to serve as a top-level Kyuafile.
EXAMPLES
The following Kyuafile is the simplest you can define. It provides a
test suite definition and registers a couple of different test programs
using different interfaces:
syntax(2)
test_suite('first')
atf_test_program{name='integration_test'}
plain_test_program{name='legacy_test'}
The following example is a bit more elaborate. It introduces some meta‐
data properties to the test program definitions and recurses into a cou‐
ple of subdirectories:
syntax(2)
test_suite('second')
plain_test_program{name='legacy_test',
allowed_architectures='amd64 i386',
required_files='/bin/ls',
timeout=30}
tap_test_program{name='privileged_test',
required_user='root'}
include('module-1/Kyuafile')
include('module-2/Kyuafile')
The syntax to define custom properties may be not obvious if their names
have any characters that make the property name not be a valid Lua iden‐
tifier. Dashes are just one example. To set such properties, do some‐
thing like this:
syntax(2)
test_suite('FreeBSD')
plain_test_program{name='the_test',
['custom.FreeBSD-Bug-Id']='category/12345'}
Connecting disjoint test suites
Now suppose you had various test suites on your file system and you would
like to connect them together so that they could be executed and treated
as a single unit. The test suites we would like to connect live under
/usr/tests, /usr/local/tests and ~/local/tests.
We cannot create a Kyuafile that references these because the include()
directive does not support absolute paths. Instead, what we can do is
create a shadow tree using symbolic links:
$ mkdir ~/everything
$ ln -s /usr/tests ~/everything/system-tests
$ ln -s /usr/local/tests ~/everything/local-tests
$ ln -s ~/local/tests ~/everything/home-tests
And then we create an ~/everything/Kyuafile file to drive the execution
of the integrated test suite:
syntax(2)
test_suite('test-all-the-things')
include('system-tests/Kyuafile')
include('local-tests/Kyuafile')
include('home-tests/Kyuafile')
Or, simply, you could reuse the sample top-level Kyuafile to avoid having
to manually craft the list of directories into which to recurse:
$ cp /usr/local/share/examples/kyua/Kyuafile.top ~/everything/Kyuafile
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