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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 15 years ago
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@ -234,17 +234,15 @@ This test harness library does the following things: @@ -234,17 +234,15 @@ This test harness library does the following things:
Do's, don'ts & things to keep in mind
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Here's a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do
Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do
when writing tests.

Do:

- Put as much code as possible inside test_expect_success and other
assertions.
- Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions.

Even code that isn't a test per se, but merely some setup code
should be inside a test assertion if at all possible. Test scripts
should only have trivial code outside of their assertions.
should be inside a test assertion.

- Chain your test assertions

@ -280,16 +278,15 @@ Don't: @@ -280,16 +278,15 @@ Don't:

- Break the TAP output

The raw output from your test might be interpreted by a TAP
harness. You usually don't have to worry about that. TAP harnesses
will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step on
their toes in these areas:
The raw output from your test may be interpreted by a TAP harness. TAP
harnesses will ignore everything they don't know about, but don't step
on their toes in these areas:

- Don't print lines like "$x..$y" where $x and $y are integers.

- Don't print lines that begin with "ok" or "not ok".

A TAP harness expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not
TAP harnesses expect a line that begins with either "ok" and "not
ok" to signal a test passed or failed (and our harness already
produces such lines), so your script shouldn't emit such lines to
their output.
@ -301,9 +298,7 @@ Don't: @@ -301,9 +298,7 @@ Don't:

Keep in mind:

- That what you print to stderr and stdout is usually ignored

Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error
- Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error
streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or
"not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they
are shown to help debugging the tests.

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