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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-12 13:51:03 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-13 11:13:33 +0000
commit48cae1e8642684f0103848b84d5884d1ba2412c8 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-48cae1e8642684f0103848b84d5884d1ba2412c8.tar.gz
maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs
* HACKING: Give an example of how to run a test in isolation. * README: Fix/simplify example for running a single test. * README-hacking: Reference the HACKING file.
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@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite
addition that exercises it. If you fix a bug, add at least one test that
fails without the patch, but that succeeds once your patch is applied.
If you add a feature, add tests to exercise as much of the new code
-as possible.
+as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do:
+
+ (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes)
There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use
tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones