Thomas Huth <[email protected]> writes: > 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 ? >
Ah, thanks for the reminder, I'll do it right away.
