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29.Dd March 20, 2014
30.Dt TESTS 7
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm tests
34.Nd introduction to the FreeBSD test suite
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Fx
38test suite provides a collection of automated tests for two major purposes.
39On one hand, the test suite aids
40.Em developers
41to detect bugs and regressions when they modify the source tree.  On the other
42hand, it allows
43.Em end users
44(and, in particular, system administrators) to verify that fresh installations
45of the
46.Fx
47operating system behave correctly on their hardware platform and also to ensure
48that the system does not suffer from regressions during regular operation and
49maintenance.
50.Pp
51The
52.Fx
53test suite is installed in the
54.Pa /usr/tests
55hierarchy.
56.Pp
57This manual page describes how to run the test suite and how to configure
58some of its optional features.
59.Ss When to run the tests?
60Before diving into the details of how to run the test suite, here are some
61scenarios in which you should run it:
62.Bl -bullet -offset indent
63.It
64After a fresh installation of
65.Fx
66to ensure that the system works correctly on your hardware platform.
67.It
68After an upgrade of
69.Fx
70to a different version to ensure that the new code works well on your
71hardware platform and that the upgrade did not introduce regressions in your
72configuration.
73.It
74After modifying the source tree to detect any new bugs and/or regressions.
75.It
76Periodically, maybe from a
77.Xr cron 8
78job, to ensure that any changes to the system (such as the installation of
79third-party packages or manual modifications to configuration files) do not
80introduce unexpected failures.
81.El
82.Ss Running the tests
83First, you will need to install the
84.Sq devel/kyua
85package from
86.Xr ports 7 .
87Then use the following command to run the whole test suite:
88.Bd -literal -offset indent
89$ kyua test -k /usr/tests/Kyuafile
90.Ed
91.Pp
92The above will iterate through all test programs in
93.Pa /usr/tests
94recursively, execute them, store their results and debugging data in Kyua's
95database (by default in
96.Pa ~/.kyua/store.db ) ,
97and print a summary of the results.
98This summary includes a brief count of all total tests run and how many of
99them failed.
100.Pp
101It is possible to restrict which tests to run by providing their names in
102the command line.
103For example, this would execute the tests for the
104.Xr cp 1
105and
106.Xr cut 1
107utilities:
108.Bd -literal -offset indent
109$ kyua test -k /usr/tests/Kyuafile bin/cp usr.bin/cut
110.Ed
111.Ss Obtaining reports of the tests execution
112Additional information about the test results can be retrieved
113by using Kyua's various reporting commands.
114For example, the following would print a plain-text report of the executed
115tests and show which ones failed:
116.Bd -literal -offset indent
117$ kyua report
118.Ed
119.Pp
120This example would generate an HTML report ready to be published on a
121web server:
122.Bd -literal -offset indent
123$ kyua report-html --output ~/public_html/tests
124.Ed
125.Pp
126For further details on the command-line interface of Kyua, please refer
127to its manual page
128.Xr kyua 1 .
129.Ss Configuring the tests
130Some test cases in the
131.Fx
132test suite require manual configuration by the administrator before they can be
133run.  Unless certain properties are defined, the tests that require them will
134be skipped.
135.Pp
136Test suites are configured by defining their configuration
137variables in
138.Pa /usr/local/etc/kyua/kyua.conf .
139The format of this file is detailed in
140.Xr kyua.conf 5 .
141.Pp
142The following configuration variables are available in the
143.Fx
144test suite:
145.Bl -tag -width "allow_sysctl_side_effects"
146.It allow_devfs_side_effects
147If defined, enables tests that may destroy and recreate semipermanent device
148nodes, like disk devices.  Without this variable, tests may still create and
149destroy devices nodes that are normally transient, like /dev/tap* and
150/dev/pts*, as long as they clean them up afterwards.  However, tests that
151require this variable have a relaxed cleanup requirement; they must recreate
152any devices that they destroyed, but not necessarily with the same devnames.
153.It allow_sysctl_side_effects
154Enables tests that change globally significant
155.Xr sysctl 8
156variables.  The tests will undo any changes in their cleanup phases.
157.It disks
158Must be set to a space delimited list of disk device nodes.  Tests that need
159destructive access to disks must use these devices.  Tests are not required to
160preserve any data present on these disks.
161.It fibs
162Must be set to a space delimited list of FIBs (routing tables).  Tests that
163need to modify a routing table may use any of these.  Tests will cleanup any
164new routes that they create.
165.El
166.Ss What to do if something fails?
167If there is
168.Em any failure
169during the execution of the test suite, please consider reporting it to the
170.Fx
171developers so that the failure can be analyzed and fixed.
172To do so, either send a message to the appropriate mailing list or file a
173problem report.
174For more details please refer to:
175.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
176.It
177.Lk http://lists.freebsd.org/ "FreeBSD Mailing Lists"
178.It
179.Lk http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html "Submit a FreeBSD Problem Report"
180.El
181.Sh FILES
182.Bl -tag -compact -width usrXlocalXetcXkyuaXkyuaXconfXX
183.It Pa /usr/local/etc/kyua/kyua.conf
184System-wide configuration file for
185.Xr kyua 1 .
186.It Pa ~/.kyua/kyua.conf
187User-specific configuration file for
188.Xr kyua 1 ;
189overrides the system file.
190.It Pa ~/.kyua/store.db
191Default result database used by Kyua.
192.It Pa /usr/tests/
193Location of the
194.Fx
195test suite.
196.It Pa /usr/tests/Kyuafile
197Top-level test suite definition file.
198.El
199.Sh SEE ALSO
200.Xr kyua 1 .
201.Sh HISTORY
202This test suite first appeared in
203.Fx 11.0 .
204.Pp
205The
206.Nm
207manual page first appeared in
208.Nx 6.0
209and was later ported to
210.Fx 11.0 .
211.Sh AUTHORS
212.An Julio Merino Aq Mt jmmv@google.com
213