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Introduce notion of a test group, use for CA tests
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@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ You can run the whole testsuite with `make check`, or the tests for a specific c
The functional tests reside under the `tests` directory and are listed in `tests/local.mk`.
Each test is a bash script.
### Running the whole test suite
The whole test suite can be run with:
```shell-session
@ -23,6 +25,33 @@ ran test tests/bar.sh... [PASS]
...
```
### Grouping tests
Sometimes it is useful to group related tests so they can be easily run together without running the entire test suite.
Each test group is in a subdirectory of `tests`.
For example, `tests/ca/local.mk` defines a `ca` test group for content-addressed derivation outputs.
That test group can be run like this:
```shell-session
$ make ca.test-group -j50
ran test tests/ca/nix-run.sh... [PASS]
ran test tests/ca/import-derivation.sh... [PASS]
...
```
The test group is defined in Make like this:
```makefile
$(test-group-name)-tests := \
$(d)/test0.sh \
$(d)/test1.sh \
...
install-tests-groups += $(test-group-name)
```
### Running individual tests
Individual tests can be run with `make`:
```shell-session