Commit b00db6fd authored by Muhammad Usama Anjum's avatar Muhammad Usama Anjum Committed by Shuah Khan
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selftests: Add information about TAP conformance in tests 



Although "TAP" word is being used already in documentation, but it hasn't
been defined in informative way for developers that how to write TAP
conformant tests and what are the benefits. Write a short brief about it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMuhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0d66ddb2

Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst

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@@ -228,6 +228,13 @@ In general, the rules for selftests are 
 * Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is

   unconfigured.



 * The output of tests must conform to the TAP standard to ensure high

   testing quality and to capture failures/errors with specific details.

   The kselftest.h and kselftest_harness.h headers provide wrappers for

   outputting test results. These wrappers should be used for pass,

   fail, exit, and skip messages. CI systems can easily parse TAP output

   messages to detect test results.



Contributing new tests (details)

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