External downloadable tests¶
As well as executing built-in tests it is possible to execute external tests. This allows non-standard tests to be constructed and executed without any requirement to modify the installed Autotest client.
Executing Tests¶
A downloadable test is triggered and run in the standard way via the run_test
method, but specifying a URL to a tarball of
the test:
job.run_test('http://www.example.com/~someone/somewhere/test.tar.bz2')
This will download, install, and execute the test as if it were built-in.
Constructing external downloadable tests¶
External downloadable tests consist of a bzip’ed tarball of the contents of a test directory. Things that need to match:
- The name of the tarball, i.g.
my_test.tar.bz2
- The name of the primary Python file, i.g.
my_test.py
- The name of the test class itself, i.e.
class my_test(test.test):
Example:
$ cat example_test/my_test.py
from autotest_lib.client.bin import test
class my_test(test.test):
version = 1
def initialize(self):
print "INIT"
def run_once(self):
print "RUN"
$ tar -C example_test -jcvf my_test.tar.bz2 .
./
./my_test.py
Note
You should not pack “example_test” directory but the contents of it. Files must be at the root of the archive.