Daniel Hilst 4b9572a0a3 test(xcat-core): the Genesis shell tests are written as Perl programs ...

Eight unit tests measure shell code: the Genesis dracut cmdline hooks, doxcat,
getcert, the two Genesis deb builders, go-xcat and the genesis test case. The
Perl in each one is scaffolding. It reads the script, lifts a block out with a
regular expression, writes a wrapper, shells out and reads the files back. A
reader follows two languages to reach one assertion, and the scaffolding is
longer than the assertion.

xCAT-test/bats already states this kind of assertion in the language of the
thing under test, and the xcat_test workflow runs it. The eight files move
there. Each one keeps what it proved: the rpm architecture becomes the Debian
architecture and names the deb it supersedes, the dracut hook picks the console
mode the multiplexer can provide, the hook gives root the home directory /,
getcert stops when the image ships no openssl, the genesis case defines its
node with the architecture of the management node and fails when nodeset fails,
doxcat picks dhcpcd where the release drops the ISC client, and go-xcat names
the Genesis packages the packaging builds.

helpers/shell_source.bash gains refute_grep. bash ignores errexit for a command
inverted with "!", so "! grep" anywhere but the last line of a test can never
fail it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>

2026-09-14 10:07:49 -03:00

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go_xcat.bash

test(xcat-core): Move BATS tests beside unit tests

2026-09-08 13:03:34 -03:00

shell_source.bash

test(xcat-core): the Genesis shell tests are written as Perl programs

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