Rules for (auto)tests execution

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Saturday 26 July 2014 16:32:43 Luigi Toscano wrote:
> are autotests - and the corresponding tests in kdelibs4 world - always run
> against a valid installation (aka: make test always after make install), or
> should they work after a simple make?

Ideally they should work after a simple make. For historical reasons we're far 
from that everywhere though...
 
> If not, I have a test which needs a proper QStandardPaths setting, so that
> it works when it's installed, but otherwise it needs to change the value
> XDG_DATA_DIR before/after the execution of the test.
> I've seen mentions of SET_TESTS_PROPERTIES and CTEST_ENVIRONMENT, but
> lxr.kde.org does not show many usages. Is there an example or a guidelines
> for this that I missed?

I don't think we have a guideline or example for that yet. Definitely 
something to document as soon has someone devised a proper solution.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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