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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2022-12-19 17:32:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2023-01-05 19:21:57 -0700 |
| commit | f393f59e5d222711b9f35a8d2d32f4ba374d4134 (patch) | |
| tree | d96de6d3e49730a5a911185f85ea04671c8af5e1 /tools/patman | |
| parent | 52c1c333eaade606be03a6087a348f8f37843f62 (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-f393f59e5d222711b9f35a8d2d32f4ba374d4134.tar.gz | |
patman: document how to run test suite via pytest
Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a
regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a
test failure.
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/patman')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/patman/patman.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst index ff4c8b3ed2..395fc0cd75 100644 --- a/tools/patman/patman.rst +++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst @@ -684,6 +684,12 @@ Note that since the test suite depends on data files only available in the git checkout, the `test` command is hidden unless `patman` is invoked from the U-Boot git repository. +Alternatively, you can run the test suite via Pytest: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ cd tools/patman && pytest + Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g. putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message. |