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A modern runner for GNU Autoconf Testsuites

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v0.8.tar.gz
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v0.8 ( 2023-03-13 )

  • Promotion (promote and run --auto-promote):

    • Fix --no-comment for promotion that was not used

    • Add argument --no-exit to promote, to promote everything except the exit code (so that the test will still fail with exitcode)

    • Don't promote failing AT_CHECK with run-if-fail or run-if-pass

  • Configuration file:

    • New config option 'project.run_from' that specifies where _autofonce/ should be created: build for build directory (default), source for source directory or config for configuration file directory

  • Command Arguments and Behavior:

    • Support for range of test ids like 1-10 or 10-

    • Exit with non-zero status on failed tests

    • If testsuite location is a directory instead of a file, scan all directoies and sub-directories for files *.at containing tests, with copying enabled (AT_COPY_ALL([true])).

    • New option -o LOGFILE to specify the log file

    • New command autofonce config to print the currently read config

    • New options -T <FILE.at>, -E <env.sh> and -I <path> to describe a testsuite directly from the command-line

    • Option -k KEYWORDS: if a keyword starts is negated with -, then tests matching that keyword will not be executed (same as --not)

  • Improved version of _autofonce/results.log:

    • Include all files from failed checks and honor captured files

    • New option captured_files in autofonce.toml to include some project files

  • Standard Macro Language:

    • Implements AT_FAIL_IF([shell-cond])

    • To conform with namespace rules for autoconf, all macros are supported with both a AT_ and AF_ prefix, and autofonce will promote autofonce specific macros with the AF_ prefix, while using the AT_ prefix for autoconf compatible macros

  • Macro language extensions (default is AF_, but AT_ is accepted:

    • Skip macro definitions with AC_DEFUN/m4_define. This is currently mostly done to allow the definition of: AC_DEFUN([AF_ENV], [$1]). Print a warning for discarding the macro definition, except for AF_ENV.

    • Add AF_ENV([env]) as a way to define a specific environment for the test (such as environment variables).

      • At toplevel, declarations by AF_ENV are added in the autofonce_env.sh file of every test.

      • At test level, declarations are added directly in all following check scripts

    • Add AF_COPY(files) to copy files from the test source directory to the test run directory

    • Add AF_LINK(files), same as AF_COPY, but symlink instead of copy

    • Add AF_COPY_ALL([true|false]). If true, used before tests, make tests copy all non .at files in their directory as if AF_COPY had been used. If false, disable copying files for following tests.

    • Add AF_LINK_ALL(), same as AF_COPY_ALL, but symlink instead of copy

    • Add AF_SUBST(variables) to replace occurrences of these env variables in the stdout/stderr. A special case is AUTOFONCE that replaces ${AUTOFONCE_RUN_DIR}/${TEST_ID}, ${AUTOFONCE_BUILD_DIR} and ${AUTOFONCE_SOURCE_DIR}.

  • Add a testsuite in test/testsuite.at

v0.7 ( 2023-02-09 )

  • Add option --auto-promote MAX to autofonce run to iterate run/promote until all changes have been promoted or a maximal number of MAX iterations

  • Add option --failures REASON to select tests matching a specific reason like exitcode, stdout or stderr

  • Add config option build_dir_candidates (default to [ "_build" ]) to automatically try to find build anchors from outside the build dir using alternative candidates

v0.6 ( 2023-02-05 )

  • Replace autofonce.env by a configuration file:

    • Configuration can be stored in autofonce.toml (typically not committed in sources) or .autofonce (committed in sources)

    • autofonce will lookup autofonce.toml first, and .autofonce if not found, and fail if none is found

    • autofonce init will create a autofonce.toml in the local directory.

    • A autofonce.toml file can be renamed to .autofonce and committed.

    • The configuration provides:

      • [testsuites] section: aliases for testsuites, with the testsuite file, the path for included files, and the env name

      • [envs] section: possibility to define different envs (included in tests scripts) for different testsuites

      • source_anchors and build_anchors are used to locate the project source dir and the project build dir in the upper directories

    • autofonce defines several variables at the beginning of test scripts envs:

      • AUTOFONCE_TESTSUITE: name of the testsuite

      • AUTOFONCE_RUN_DIR: directory where tests are run (containing `_autofonce/)

      • AUTOFONCE_SOURCE_DIR: source directory of the project (root/top dir)

      • AUTOFONCE_BUILD_DIR: build directory of the project

  • The run-dir (the directory that will contain the _autofonce/ subdir) is determined by:

    • the directory containing the file autofonce.toml, or

    • the build directory as defined by the anchors in the .autofonce file

v0.5 ( 2023-02-04 )

  • Add subcommand autofonce promote to update tests files with current results. This command can be applied using standard filters. By default, display a diff of changes to be performed. Use --apply to actually perform the tests.

  • Add selector --failed to run only previously failed tests

  • Scripts are run with AUTOFONCE_SUITE_DIR and AUTOFONCE_SUITE_FILE env variables (to locate and identify the testsuite.at file)

  • Rename _autotest/ dir to _autofonce/ dir

  • Simplify default gnucobol.env to use atconfig and atlocal: slower but probably more portable

v0.4 ( 2023-02-02 )

  • Improve m4 parsing

  • display nchecks performed

  • allow if/then/else within tests

  • min-edition set to 4.10

v0.3 ( 2023-01-28 )

  • add autofonce new to create new tests

v0.2 ( 2023-01-28 )

  • Improved documentation

v0.1 ( 2023-01-28 )

  • Initial commit

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