On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 14:28:56 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
A test case can be part of a test suite (just like we already have 'syntax-check'). This then allows developers to run only a subset of tests. For instance - when using valgrind test setup (`meson test -C _build/ --setup valgrind`) it makes zero sense to run syntax-check tests or other script based tests (e.g. check-augeas-*, check-remote_protocol, etc.). What does makes sense is to run compiled binaries.
Strictly speaking, reaching that goal is as trivial as annotating only those compiled tests (declared in tests/meson.build) and running them selectively:
meson test -C _build/ --setup valgrind --suite $TAG
But it may be also desirable to run test scripts separately.
Therefore, introduce two new tags: 'bin' for compiled tests, and 'script' for script based tests and annotate each test() accordingly.
Tbh this annotation feels very arbitrary but since we don't use it and I don't really see us running anything besides unit tests from this repository I don't think we'll need to use this any time soon for anything else. Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>