Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] Acceptance tests: use relative location for tests

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/4/19 4:13 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> An Avocado Test ID[1] is composed by a number of components, but it
> starts with the Test Name, usually a file system location that was
> given to the loader.
>
> Because the source directory is being given as a prefix to the
> "tests/acceptance" directory containing the acceptance tests, the test
> names will needlessly include the directory the user is using to host
> the QEMU sources (and/or build tree).
>
> Let's remove the source dir (or a build dir) from the path given to
> the test loader.  This should give more constant names, and when using
> result servers and databases, it should give the same test names
> across executions from different people or from different directories.

Can we strip the full path to directory and only keep the filename in 
the database? (Thinking about out-of-tree tests).

> [1] - 
> https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/69.0/ReferenceGuide.html#test-id
>
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

> ---
>   tests/Makefile.include | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tests/Makefile.include b/tests/Makefile.include
> index 56f73b46e2..65e85f5275 100644
> --- a/tests/Makefile.include
> +++ b/tests/Makefile.include
> @@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ check-acceptance: check-venv $(TESTS_RESULTS_DIR)
>               --show=$(AVOCADO_SHOW) run --job-results-dir=$(TESTS_RESULTS_DIR) 
> \
>               --filter-by-tags-include-empty --filter-by-tags-include-empty-key 
> \
>               $(AVOCADO_TAGS) \
> -            --failfast=on $(SRC_PATH)/tests/acceptance, \
> +            --failfast=on tests/acceptance, \
>               "AVOCADO", "tests/acceptance")
>   
>   # Consolidated targets