Re: [Avocado-devel] option --output-check-record behavior

[Lukáš Doktor]

Dne 9.9.2016 v 23:25 Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues napsal(a):

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:14 AM Marcos E. Matsunaga
<marcos.matsun...@oracle.com <mailto:marcos.matsun...@oracle.com>> wrote:

    Hi guys,

    First of all, thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.

    I found an interesting behavior. If I set loglevel=info in
    /etc/avocado/avocado.conf, it will not produce any content in
    stderr.expected and stdout.expected. If I set loglevel=debug, then
    it will work as it should. I don't mind running in debug mode, but I
    am not sure the behavior should be affected by loglevel.

    Anyway, the question I have is about using --output-check-record
    when multiplexing. I notice that the files stdout.expected and
    stderr.expected get overwritten on each variant. I will assume there
    is a way to save each of the variant results and then use them to
    check. The problem is that I went through the documentation and
    didn't find anything that talks about it.

This is the expected behavior. The `--output-check-record` is a simple tool to allow checking simple tests like `cat /etc/fedora-release`, it was never meant for heavy stuff including multiplexer. Consider running the same test with a different file or with adjusted multiplex file (different number of variants, ...). What would be the expected results?

Anyway looking at your test, I'd implement it as two tests:

1. start
2. stop

Looking something like this:

```
def start(...):
    # start the xen machine with given attributes

def stop(...):
    # stop the xen machine with given attributes

class StartTest(...):
    def test(self):
        start()
    def tearDown(self):
        stop()

class StopTest(...):
    def setUp(self):
        start()
    def test(self):
        stop()
```

Which would make sure to always cleanup after itself. Other solution would be to have start & stop as a single test, but having one test to start a machine and leaving it after the test is finished does not look nice to me.

    Thanks again.

    BTW, is the whole development team Brazilian?

No, we also have Lukas, from Czech republic, and also contributors in
China and India.

Actually we have two core (Red Hat) people located in Czech republic and one in the USA a incrementally we get more and more contributors from all around the world.

    Regards,

Regards,
Lukáš

    Marcos Eduardo Matsunaga

    Oracle USA
    Linux Engineering

    “The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not
    necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.”

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