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Package testscript provides support for defining filesystem-based tests by creating scripts in a directory. To invoke the tests, call testscript.Run. For example: A testscript directory holds test scripts *.txt run during 'go test'. Each script defines a subtest; the exact set of allowable commands in a script are defined by the parameters passed to the Run function. To run a specific script foo.txt where TestName is the name of the test that Run is called from. To define an executable command (or several) that can be run as part of the script, call RunMain with the functions that implement the command's functionality. The command functions will be called in a separate process, so are free to mutate global variables without polluting the top level test binary. In general script files should have short names: a few words, not whole sentences. The first word should be the general category of behavior being tested, often the name of a subcommand to be tested or a concept (vendor, pattern). Each script is a text archive (go doc github.com/rogpeppe/testscript//txtar). The script begins with an actual command script to run followed by the content of zero or more supporting files to create in the script's temporary file system before it starts executing. As an example: Each script runs in a fresh temporary work directory tree, available to scripts as $WORK. Scripts also have access to these other environment variables: The environment variable $exe (lowercase) is an empty string on most systems, ".exe" on Windows. The script's supporting files are unpacked relative to $WORK and then the script begins execution in that directory as well. Thus the example above runs in $WORK with $WORK/hello.txt containing the listed contents. The lines at the top of the script are a sequence of commands to be executed by a small script engine in the testscript package (not the system shell). The script stops and the overall test fails if any particular command fails. Each line is parsed into a sequence of space-separated command words, with environment variable expansion and # marking an end-of-line comment. Adding single quotes around text keeps spaces in that text from being treated as word separators and also disables environment variable expansion. Inside a single-quoted block of text, a repeated single quote indicates a literal single quote, as in: A line beginning with # is a comment and conventionally explains what is being done or tested at the start of a new phase in the script. A special form of environment variable syntax can be used to quote regexp metacharacters inside environment variables. The "@R" suffix is special, and indicates that the variable should be quoted. The command prefix ! indicates that the command on the rest of the line (typically go or a matching predicate) must fail, not succeed. Only certain commands support this prefix. They are indicated below by [!] in the synopsis. The command prefix [cond] indicates that the command on the rest of the line should only run when the condition is satisfied. The predefined conditions are: A condition can be negated: [!short] means to run the rest of the line when testing.Short() is false. Additional conditions can be added by passing a function to Params.Condition. The predefined commands are: - chmod mode file [!] exec program [args...] [&] Run the given executable program with the arguments. It must (or must not) succeed. Note that 'exec' does not terminate the script (unlike in Unix shells). If the last token is '&', the program executes in the background. The standard output and standard error of the previous command is cleared, but the output of the background process is buffered — and checking of its exit status is delayed — until the next call to 'wait', 'skip', or 'stop' or the end of the test. At the end of the test, any remaining background processes are terminated using os.Interrupt (if supported) or os.Kill. Standard input can be provided using the stdin command; this will be cleared after exec has been called. When TestScript runs a script and the script fails, by default TestScript shows the execution of the most recent phase of the script (since the last # comment) and only shows the # comments for earlier phases. For example, here is a multi-phase script with a bug in it (TODO: make this example less go-command specific): The bug is that the final phase installs p11 instead of p1. The test failure looks like: Note that the commands in earlier phases have been hidden, so that the relevant commands are more easily found, and the elapsed time for a completed phase is shown next to the phase heading. To see the entire execution, use "go test -v", which also adds an initial environment dump to the beginning of the log. Note also that in reported output, the actual name of the per-script temporary directory has been consistently replaced with the literal string $WORK. If Params.TestWork is true, it causes each test to log the name of its $WORK directory and other environment variable settings and also to leave that directory behind when it exits, for manual debugging of failing tests:
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The go tool uses an internal DSL for testing. It works really well and we
want it for our own commands, so we've factored it out here.
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Package testscript provides support for defining filesystem-based tests by creating scripts in a directory. To invoke the tests, call testscript.Run. For example: A testscript directory holds test scripts *.txt run during 'go test'. Each script defines a subtest; the exact set of allowable commands in a script are defined by the parameters passed to the Run function. To run a specific script foo.txt where TestName is the name of the test that Run is called from. To define an executable command (or several) that can be run as part of the script, call RunMain with the functions that implement the command's functionality. The command functions will be called in a separate process, so are free to mutate global variables without polluting the top level test binary. In general script files should have short names: a few words, not whole sentences. The first word should be the general category of behavior being tested, often the name of a subcommand to be tested or a concept (vendor, pattern). Each script is a text archive (go doc github.com/rogpeppe/testscript//txtar). The script begins with an actual command script to run followed by the content of zero or more supporting files to create in the script's temporary file system before it starts executing. As an example: Each script runs in a fresh temporary work directory tree, available to scripts as $WORK. Scripts also have access to these other environment variables: The environment variable $exe (lowercase) is an empty string on most systems, ".exe" on Windows. The script's supporting files are unpacked relative to $WORK and then the script begins execution in that directory as well. Thus the example above runs in $WORK with $WORK/hello.txt containing the listed contents. The lines at the top of the script are a sequence of commands to be executed by a small script engine in the testscript package (not the system shell). The script stops and the overall test fails if any particular command fails. Each line is parsed into a sequence of space-separated command words, with environment variable expansion and # marking an end-of-line comment. Adding single quotes around text keeps spaces in that text from being treated as word separators and also disables environment variable expansion. Inside a single-quoted block of text, a repeated single quote indicates a literal single quote, as in: A line beginning with # is a comment and conventionally explains what is being done or tested at the start of a new phase in the script. A special form of environment variable syntax can be used to quote regexp metacharacters inside environment variables. The "@R" suffix is special, and indicates that the variable should be quoted. The command prefix ! indicates that the command on the rest of the line (typically go or a matching predicate) must fail, not succeed. Only certain commands support this prefix. They are indicated below by [!] in the synopsis. The command prefix [cond] indicates that the command on the rest of the line should only run when the condition is satisfied. The predefined conditions are: A condition can be negated: [!short] means to run the rest of the line when testing.Short() is false. Additional conditions can be added by passing a function to Params.Condition. The predefined commands are: - chmod mode file [!] exec program [args...] [&] Run the given executable program with the arguments. It must (or must not) succeed. Note that 'exec' does not terminate the script (unlike in Unix shells). If the last token is '&', the program executes in the background. The standard output and standard error of the previous command is cleared, but the output of the background process is buffered — and checking of its exit status is delayed — until the next call to 'wait', 'skip', or 'stop' or the end of the test. At the end of the test, any remaining background processes are terminated using os.Interrupt (if supported) or os.Kill. Standard input can be provided using the stdin command; this will be cleared after exec has been called. When TestScript runs a script and the script fails, by default TestScript shows the execution of the most recent phase of the script (since the last # comment) and only shows the # comments for earlier phases. For example, here is a multi-phase script with a bug in it (TODO: make this example less go-command specific): The bug is that the final phase installs p11 instead of p1. The test failure looks like: Note that the commands in earlier phases have been hidden, so that the relevant commands are more easily found, and the elapsed time for a completed phase is shown next to the phase heading. To see the entire execution, use "go test -v", which also adds an initial environment dump to the beginning of the log. Note also that in reported output, the actual name of the per-script temporary directory has been consistently replaced with the literal string $WORK. If Params.TestWork is true, it causes each test to log the name of its $WORK directory and other environment variable settings and also to leave that directory behind when it exits, for manual debugging of failing tests:
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