On 16/12/2025 21.05, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
The functional tests currently don't allow a single test to be
selected for execution by dotted name, e.g:
../tests/functional/ppc64/test_pseries.py PseriesMachine.test_ppc64_linux_boot
^
The issue is that the testcase.py main function passes the test
module's name as the second argument to unittest.main(), which makes
it ignore all other positional arguments (presumably because the
module is already the superset of all tests).
After commit cac08383f0 ("tests/functional: expose sys.argv to
unittest.main"), the situation improves by passing the rest of the
argv from the command line invocation into unittest.main(), but it
still doesn't fix the issue. The short form options are now accepted,
so the -k option could be used to filter for a pattern, which is
useful, but not the same as listing the test names.
Fix this by passing the test module name via the "module" argument to
unittest.main() and stop touching argv. The ways of invoking tests are
now as per unittests documentation (-k still works):
Examples:
test_pseries.py - run default set of tests
test_pseries.py MyTestSuite - run suite 'MyTestSuite'
test_pseries.py MyTestCase.testSomething - run MyTestCase.testSomething
test_pseries.py MyTestCase - run all 'test*' test methods
in MyTestCase
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
If you've got some spare time, maybe you could also add some words about
running individual sub-tests to docs/devel/testing/functional.rst ?
Thomas
