On 04/27/2015 12:04 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
>> While I was adding tests, I noticed that we had a broken test due to the
>> use of single quotes within a test, which resulted in the test always
>> being skipped.
>
> Good eyes. While fixing the test is necessary, we should also be
> able to improve the test framework to prevent such mistakes at the
> same time.
>
> ok 38 # skip
> git clone "[myhost:123]:src" ssh-bracket-clone &&
> expect_ssh myhost -p (missing bracketed hostnames are still
> ssh)
>
> The test scripts are expected to take either 3 or 4 parameters, and
> the extra parameter when it takes 4 is the comma separated list of
> prerequisites. "bracketed hostnames are still ssh" does not look
> like prerequisites at all to us humans, and the framework should
> also be able to notice that and barf, I would think.
>
> Perhaps something like this?
>
> t/test-lib-functions.sh | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> index 0698ce7..0e4f2a6 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> @@ -348,11 +348,18 @@ test_declared_prereq () {
> return 1
> }
>
> +test_verify_prereq () {
> + test -z "$test_prereq" ||
> + expr >/dev/null "$test_prereq" : '^[A-Z0-9_,!]*$' ||
> + error "bug in the test script: '$test_prereq' does not look like a
> prereq"
> +}
> +
> test_expect_failure () {
> test_start_
> test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
> test "$#" = 2 ||
> error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to
> test-expect-failure"
> + test_verify_prereq
> export test_prereq
> if ! test_skip "$@"
> then
> @@ -372,6 +379,7 @@ test_expect_success () {
> test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
> test "$#" = 2 ||
> error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to
> test-expect-success"
> + test_verify_prereq
> export test_prereq
> if ! test_skip "$@"
> then
> @@ -400,6 +408,7 @@ test_external () {
> error >&5 "bug in the test script: not 3 or 4 parameters to
> test_external"
> descr="$1"
> shift
> + test_verify_prereq
> export test_prereq
> if ! test_skip "$descr" "$@"
> then
>
Thanks for fixing my bugs :-)
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