From 0193767b25340ac6ea6e6ecfbc0c3d1c25c153ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:01:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/devel/testing: add debug section to the QEMU iotests chapter Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy Reviewed-by: Max Reitz Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-5-eesposit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz --- docs/devel/testing.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst index 8a9cda33a5..8359f2ae37 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst @@ -224,6 +224,14 @@ another application on the host may have locked the file, possibly leading to a test failure. If using such devices are explicitly desired, consider adding ``locking=off`` option to disable image locking. +Debugging a test case +----------------------- +The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging +a failing test: + +* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing + for example the QMP commands and answers. + Test case groups ----------------