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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2015-03-20 06:05:48 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-20 10:20:12 -0700
commitbb79af9d09709d6d93a01d1494d0ca93ff6d4b99 (patch)
tree90ee79fa54642f153a266db77a193d5f78a757a7 /t/test-lib.sh
parent9ab698f4000a736864c41f57fbae1e021ac27799 (diff)
downloadgit-bb79af9d09709d6d93a01d1494d0ca93ff6d4b99.tar.gz
t/test-lib: introduce --chain-lint option
It's easy to miss an "&&"-chain in a test script, like: test_expect_success 'check something important' ' cmd1 && cmd2 cmd3 ' The test harness will notice if cmd3 fails, but a failure of cmd1 or cmd2 will go unnoticed, as their exit status is lost after cmd3 runs. The toy example above is easy to spot because the "cmds" are all the same length, but real code is much more complicated. It's also difficult to detect these situations by statically analyzing the shell code with regexps (like the check-non-portable-shell script does); there's too much context required to know whether a &&-chain is appropriate on a given line or not. This patch instead lets the shell check each test by sticking a command with a specific and unusual return code at the top of each test, like: (exit 117) && cmd1 && cmd2 cmd3 In a well-formed test, the non-zero exit from the first command prevents any of the rest from being run, and the test's exit code is 117. In a bad test (like the one above), the 117 is lost, and cmd3 is run. When we encounter a failure of this check, we abort the test script entirely. For one thing, we have no clue which subset of the commands in the test snippet were actually run. Running further tests would be pointless, because we're now in an unknown state. And two, this is not a "test failure" in the traditional sense. The test script is buggy, not the code it is testing. We should be able to fix these problems in the script once, and not have them come back later as a regression in git's code. After checking a test snippet for --chain-lint, we do still run the test itself. We could actually have a pure-lint mode which just checks each test, but there are a few reasons not to. One, because the tests are executing arbitrary code, which could impact the later environment (e.g., that could impact which set of tests we run at all). And two, because a pure-lint mode would still be expensive to run, because a significant amount of code runs outside of the test_expect_* blocks. Instead, this option is designed to be used as part of a normal test suite run, where it adds very little overhead. Turning on this option detects quite a few problems in existing tests, which will be fixed in subsequent patches. However, there are a number of places it cannot reach: - it cannot find a failure to break out of loops on error, like: cmd1 && for i in a b c; do cmd2 $i done && cmd3 which will not notice failures of "cmd2 a" or "cmd b" - it cannot find a missing &&-chain inside a block or subfunction, like: foo () { cmd1 cmd2 } foo && bar which will not notice a failure of cmd1. - it only checks tests that you run; every platform will have some tests skipped due to missing prequisites, so it's impossible to say from one run that the test suite is free of broken &&-chains. However, all tests get run by _somebody_, so eventually we will notice problems. - it does not operate on test_when_finished or prerequisite blocks. It could, but these tends to be much shorter and less of a problem, so I punted on them in this patch. This patch was inspired by an earlier patch by Jonathan Nieder: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235913 This implementation and all bugs are mine. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index c09677802c..50b3d3f45d 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ do
--root=*)
root=$(expr "z$1" : 'z[^=]*=\(.*\)')
shift ;;
+ --chain-lint)
+ GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT=1
+ shift ;;
+ --no-chain-lint)
+ GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT=0
+ shift ;;
-x)
trace=t
verbose=t
@@ -524,6 +530,16 @@ test_eval_ () {
test_run_ () {
test_cleanup=:
expecting_failure=$2
+
+ if test "${GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT:-0}" != 0; then
+ # 117 is magic because it is unlikely to match the exit
+ # code of other programs
+ test_eval_ "(exit 117) && $1"
+ if test "$?" != 117; then
+ error "bug in the test script: broken &&-chain: $1"
+ fi
+ fi
+
setup_malloc_check
test_eval_ "$1"
eval_ret=$?