In the current round of releases, we've stopped excluding the tests subdir from the source releases. In general, I think this is the right thing to do because if someone is actually going to build an OpenWhisk component from a source release, they really should be able to test what they built.
However, some of our repos include "binary" files of various flavors to use as test input. Clearly, we can extend rcverify.sh to accept a wider range of file types in the "tests" tree, but do we want to allow everything or just a restricted set of file types? Appended is the list for wskdeploy. It runs the spectrum of zips containing source files, jar files, and full-out executables (golang). --dave scanning for unexpected file types... failed (/var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/helloworld/actions/hello.zip: application/zip; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/helloworld/actions/hello.jar: application/java-archive; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/docker/actions/go/exec: application/x-executable; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/docker/actions/exec.zip: application/zip; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/validate-packages-in-manifest/actions/hello.jar: application/java-archive; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/jaraction/src/hello.jar: application/java-archive; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/runtimetests/src/helloworld/helloworld.zip: application/zip; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/runtimetests/src/helloDotNet.src.zip: application/zip; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/runtimetests/src/hello.jar: application/java-archive; charset=binary /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/runtimetests/src/helloDotNet.zip: application/zip; charset=binary) scanning for archives ... failed (/var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/helloworld/actions/hello.jar /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/validate-packages-in-manifest/actions/hello.jar /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/jaraction/src/hello.jar /var/folders/8c/zvj0nsxx2rgc_km8nvf8k0c00000gn/T/tmp.RHoEu36n/openwhisk-wskdeploy-1.0.0/tests/src/integration/runtimetests/src/hello.jar)
