<I've limited my reply to ovs-dev to avoid mailing list cross-talk> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:04 PM Sam <batmanu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm working on ovs tests, and I want to add my test, so I have few > questions: > > 1. what testing frame work does ovs-tests use, as I have seen lots of *.at > file, lots of AT_*() macro. > OVS uses GNU AutoTest. You can read more about it here: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.68/html_node/Using-Autotest.html#Using-Autotest > > 2. Will ovs-tests start ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server when running test by > `make check` command? As if no vswitchd started, how to test it? > Autotest assumes nothing about the environment when it starts. Each test (or test group) will start ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server if necessary. In your follow-up e-mail, you point out a section where the OVS_VSWITCHD_START m4 macro is used. That particular macro starts up vswitchd and ovsdb-server. There are other macros that perform other useful tasks as well. I recommend that you browse the tests/ directory > > 3. Also there are *.py files, how it works? > > Autotest is a series of shell scripts, so they can call out to other programs if necessary. Some tests will call into python, perl, or C programs in order to perform their work. > Thank you~ > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > d...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
