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[v4,03/15] docs/devel/testing: add debug section to the QEMU iotests chapter

Message ID 20210520075236.44723-4-eesposit@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series qemu_iotests: improve debugging options | expand

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Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito May 20, 2021, 7:52 a.m. UTC
Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation
to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
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 docs/devel/testing.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

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Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy May 26, 2021, 11:18 a.m. UTC | #1
20.05.2021 10:52, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation
> to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito<eesposit@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 1da4c4e4c4..8144e316a4 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -224,6 +224,14 @@  another application on the host may have locked the file, possibly leading to a
 test failure.  If using such devices are explicitly desired, consider adding
 ``locking=off`` option to disable image locking.
 
+Debugging a test case
+-----------------------
+The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging
+a failing test:
+
+* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
+  for example the QMP commands and answers.
+
 Test case groups
 ----------------