Bug #18272 make tests addressable/ignorable at test granularity, instead of file gran'ty

• Submitted: 16 Mar 2006 8:31
• Modified: 23 Aug 2006 16:43
• Reporter: Chad MILLER
• Status: Won't fix
• Category: MySQL Server
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 5.2
• Assigned to: Magnus Blåudd
• CPU Architecture: Any

[16 Mar 2006 8:31] Chad MILLER

Description:
We should be able to add/run/ignore individual tests, instead of whole test-files that contain many tests.

Any individual test should be addressable by a name.

This bug should involve changing the test runner, and not any particular test files, except perhaps only as a demonstration of functionality.

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
A simple means would be to choose some way of delimiting tests by some string.  Since so man of our tests so far begin with (regex) "^#\s*[Bb]ug[:# ]*(\d)", that might be a good starting point. The text following that regex and before the next match could be called "bugNNN".

Or, we could pick a different delimiter, since not all tests have bug numbers.  

Some tests and files presently have no usable text descriptions.  We can edit/split those manually later, all at once.

[3 Aug 2006 10:53] Magnus Blåudd

I don't think we will ever get to do this one.