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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2013-09-20 12:49:27 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2013-09-20 12:51:14 +0100
commit439309bfede3afe68469f39bbde332ff5f668ba6 (patch)
tree37beb7d2c713cda587675b619601e91915fe2122
parent089c6a1562a74b86f7e60c87d43abc1c7a6cb446 (diff)
downloadtelepathy-mission-control-439309bfede3afe68469f39bbde332ff5f668ba6.tar.gz
Document the new test logging arrangement
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69585
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@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ To run an individual Twisted test:
make -C tests/twisted check-twisted \
TWISTED_TESTS=dispatcher/create-at-startup.py
-To run with debug information:
-
- make -C tests/twisted check-twisted \
- TWISTED_TESTS=dispatcher/create-at-startup.py \
- CHECK_TWISTED_VERBOSE=1
+Debug information (the test's own log, and Mission Control's log)
+is recorded in a subdirectory of tests-twisted whose name is based
+on the test's name, like tests/twisted/tmp-dispatcher_create-at-startup_py.
+The same tmp-* directory also contains the account data used in the test.
+If the test fails, its output will be sent to stdout.
+
+These directories are normally deleted after a test passes or is skipped,
+and kept for analysis if it fails. Set the environment variable
+MC_TEST_KEEP_TEMP to avoid deleting them.
To debug an individual test you can set one of the following env variable: