Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] kunit: support running subsets of test suites from kunit.py

[Brendan Higgins]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:09 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When using `kunit.py run` to run tests, users must populate a
> `kunitconfig` file to select the options the tests are hidden behind and
> all their dependencies.
>
> The patch [1] to allow specifying a path to kunitconfig promises to make
> this nicer as we can have checked in files corresponding to different
> sets of tests.
>
> But it's still annoying
> 1) when trying to run a subet of tests
> 2) when you want to run tests that don't have such a pre-existing
> kunitconfig and selecting all the necessary options is tricky.
>
> This patch series aims to alleviate both:
> 1) `kunit.py run 'my-suite-*'`
> I.e. use my current kunitconfig, but just run suites that match this glob
> 2) `kunit.py run --alltests 'my-suite-*'`
> I.e. use allyesconfig so I don't have to worry about writing a
> kunitconfig at all.
>
> See the first commit message for more details and discussion about
> future work.
>
> This patch series also includes a bugfix for a latent bug that can't be
> triggered right now but has worse consequences as a result of the
> changes needed to plumb in this suite name glob.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20210201205514.3943096-1-dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx/

Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>