This directory contains a harness, named Unittest, for writing tests used by system/utest.
N.B. This library cannot use fdio since system/utest/core uses it and system/utest/core cannot use fdio. See system/utest/core/README.md.
Unittest has a set of options that it recognizes. All tests are expected to call unittest_run_all_tests(), which will ensure all tests get these options.
However, tests can also have their own options. Since Unittest does not use any kind of general argv parsing library, and each test as well as Unittest do their own parsing, one issue is how to support both Unittest options and test-specific options without either having to know about the other. This becomes important when parsing an option that takes a value and the value might begin with “-”. E.g.,
$ foo-test --foo -f -f bar
where the first -f is the value for option --foo and the second -f is an option specific to foo-test.
Argv processing is first done in the main() of the testcase, and then again in Unittest when the testcase calls unittest_run_all_tests(). If --foo is a Unittest option, how does the testcase know to ignore the first -f? The solution we employ is very simple:
Parse argv one element at a time, and ignore anything that is not recognized.
This simple rule makes writing tests easy, but it does have some consequences one needs to be aware of. For example, this means that option values cannot begin with “-”, which makes the above example invalid. A second consequence is that there are no positional parameters. E.g.,
$ foo-test --foo ./-f a b c -f bar
is equivalent to
$ foo-test --foo ./-f -f bar a b c
While not entirely clean, this allows for a simple implementation, and preserves the status quo.