[PATCH 7/8] t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:03
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted> --- t/README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 6232567..42a4c25 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README@@ -231,6 +231,18 @@ This test harness library does the following things: consistently when command line arguments --verbose (or -v), --debug (or -d), and --immediate (or -i) is given. +Skipping tests +-------------- + +If you need to skip all the remaining tests you should set skip_all +and immediately call test_done. The string you give to skip_all will +be used as an explanation for why the test was skipped. for instance: + + if ! test_have_prereq PERL + then + skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available' + test_done + fi End with test_done ------------------
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