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Running the Test Suite
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As of Bazaar 2.1, you must have the testtools_ library installed to run
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.. _testtools: https://launchpad.net/testtools/
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To test all of Bazaar, just run::
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With ``--verbose`` bzr will print the name of every test as it is run.
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This should always pass, whether run from a source tree or an installed
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copy of Bazaar. Please investigate and/or report any failures.
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Running particular tests
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Currently, bzr selftest is used to invoke tests.
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--load-list. The later is rarely used but allows to run a subset of a list of
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failing tests for example.
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To test only the bzr core, ignoring any plugins you may have installed,
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./bzr --no-plugins selftest
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Disabling crash reporting
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By default Bazaar uses apport_ to report program crashes. In developing
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Bazaar it's normal and expected to have it crash from time to time, at
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least because a test failed if for no other reason.
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Therefore you should probably add ``debug_flags = no_apport`` to your
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``bazaar.conf`` file (in ``~/.bazaar/`` on Unix), so that failures just
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print a traceback rather than writing a crash file.
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.. _apport: https://launchpad.net/apport/
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Test suite debug flags
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This can provide useful logging to help debug test failures when used
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Note that this will probably cause some tests to fail, because they
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don't expect to run with any debug flags on.
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Bazaar can optionally produce output in the machine-readable subunit_
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format, so that test output can be post-processed by various tools. To
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generate a subunit test stream::
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$ ./bzr selftest --subunit
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Processing such a stream can be done using a variety of tools including:
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* The builtin ``subunit2pyunit``, ``subunit-filter``, ``subunit-ls``,
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``subunit2junitxml`` from the subunit project.
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* tribunal_, a GUI for showing test results.
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* testrepository_, a tool for gathering and managing test runs.
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.. _subunit: https://launchpad.net/subunit/
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.. _tribunal: https://launchpad.net/tribunal/
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Bazaar ships with a config file for testrepository_. This can be very
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useful for keeping track of failing tests and doing general workflow
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support. To run tests using testrepository::
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To run only failing tests::
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$ testr run --failing
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To run only some tests, without plugins::
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$ test run test_selftest -- --no-plugins
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Normally you should add or update a test for all bug fixes or new features
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`bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff` has some tests that measure how many
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Python modules are loaded to run some representative commands.
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We want to avoid loading code unnecessarily, for reasons including:
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* Python modules are interpreted when they're loaded, either to define
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classes or modules or perhaps to initialize some structures.
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* With a cold cache we may incur blocking real disk IO for each module.
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* Some modules depend on many others.
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* Some optional modules such as `testtools` are meant to be soft
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dependencies and only needed for particular cases. If they're loaded in
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other cases then bzr may break for people who don't have those modules.
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`test_import_tarrif` allows us to check that removal of imports doesn't
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This is done by running the command in a subprocess with
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``--profile-imports``. Starting a whole Python interpreter is pretty
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slow, so we don't want exhaustive testing here, but just enough to guard
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against distinct fixed problems.
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Assertions about precisely what is loaded tend to be brittle so we instead
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make assertions that particular things aren't loaded.
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Unless selftest is run with ``--no-plugins``, modules will be loaded in
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the usual way and checks made on what they cause to be loaded. This is
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probably worth checking into, because many bzr users have at least some
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plugins installed (and they're included in binary installers).
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In theory, plugins might have a good reason to load almost anything:
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someone might write a plugin that opens a network connection or pops up a
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gui window every time you run 'bzr status'. However, it's more likely
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that the code to do these things is just being loaded accidentally. We
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might eventually need to have a way to make exceptions for particular
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* non-GUI commands shouldn't load GUI libraries
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* operations on bzr native formats sholudn't load foreign branch libraries
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* network code shouldn't be loaded for purely local operations
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* particularly expensive Python built-in modules shouldn't be loaded
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Testing locking behaviour
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In order to test the locking behaviour of commands, it is possible to install
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a hook that is called when a write lock is: acquired, released or broken.
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(Read locks also exist, they cannot be discovered in this way.)
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lock.Lock.hooks.install_named_hook('lock_acquired',
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- BzrDir: `/branch-lock`
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KnownFailure should be used with care as we don't want a
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proliferation of quietly broken tests.
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ModuleAvailableFeature
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A helper for handling running tests based on whether a python
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module is available. This can handle 3rd-party dependencies (is
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``paramiko`` available?) as well as stdlib (``termios``) or
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extension modules (``bzrlib._groupcompress_pyx``). You create a
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self.requireFeature(StraceFeature)
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The old naming style for features is CamelCase, but because they're
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Features already defined in ``bzrlib.tests`` and ``bzrlib.tests.features``
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- UnicodeFilenameFeature
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- chown_feature: The test can rely on OS being POSIX and python
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A helper for handling running tests based on whether a python
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extension modules (``bzrlib._groupcompress_pyx``). You create a
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