RUNNING THE TEST SUITE
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-(1) Download the tarball exim-testsuite-x.xx.tar.bz2 and unpack it, preferably
- in a directory alongside an Exim source directory (see below).
+(1) Clone the git tree for Exim. This include both the Exim source and the
+ testsuite.
-(2) cd into the exim-testsuite-x.xx directory.
+(2) cd into the test/ subdirectory (where this README lives).
(3) Run "./configure" and then "make". This builds a few auxiliary programs that
are written in C.
maintainer after making a change to the code that affects a lot of
tests (for example, the wording of a message).
+ -SLOW For very slow hosts that appear to have Heisenbugs, delay before
+ comparing output files from a testcase
+
The options for ./runtest must be given first (but after the name of the
binary, if present). Any further options, that is, items on the command line
that start with a hyphen, are passed to the Exim binary when it is run as part
These commands are not followed by any input data, or by a line of asterisks.
+ ### This is a verbose comment
+
+A line starting with three hashmarks and some space copies the following text to
+both stdout and stderr file being written by the test.
+
dbmbuild <file1> <file1>
This command runs the exim_dbmbuild utility to build a DBM file. It is used
exim_lock [options] <file name>
This command runs the exim_lock utility with the given options and file name.
-The file remains locked with the following command (normally exim) is obeyed.
+The file remains locked for following commands until a non-daemon "exim"
+completes.
exinext <data>
The following lines, up to a line of four asterisks, are the server's
controlling standard input (described below). These lines are read and
-remembered; during the following commands, until an "exim" command is reached,
-the server is run in parallel.
+remembered; during the following commands, until a non-deamon "exim" command
+is reached, the server is run in parallel. Then the server termination
+is waited for.
write <file name> [nxm[=start-of-line-text]]*
CLIENT SCRIPTS
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-Lines in client scripts are of two kinds:
+Lines in client scripts are of several kinds:
(1) If a line begins with three question marks and a space, the rest of the
line defines the start of expected output from the server. If what is
received does not match, the client bombs out with an error message.
-(2) If a line starts with three plus signs followed by a space, the rest of the
+(2) If a line begins with three question marks and an asterisk, the server
+ is expected to close the connection.
+
+(3) If a line begins with four question marks, the rest of the line defines
+ the start of one or more possible output lines from the server. When it
+ matches, the client silently repeats the comparison using the next server
+ line. When the match fails, the client silently proceeds to the next script
+ line with the then-current server output unconsumed.
+
+(4) If a line starts with three plus signs followed by a space, the rest of the
line specifies a number of seconds to sleep for before proceeding.
-(3) If a line begins with three '>' characters and a space, the rest of the
+(5) If a line begins with three '>' characters and a space, the rest of the
line is input to be sent to the server. Backslash escaping is done as
described below, but no trailing "\r\n" is sent.
-(4) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
+(6) If a line begin with three '<' characters and a space, the rest of the
+ line is a filename; the content of the file is inserted intto the script
+ at this point.
+
+(7) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
occurrences of \r and \n in the line are turned into carriage return and
linefeed, respectively. This is used for testing PIPELINING.
- Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equvalent
+ Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equivalent
byte value. Any other character following a \ is sent verbatim.
+ The line is sent with a trailing "\r\n".
Here is a simple example:
git://git.exim.org / users / jgh / exim.git / blobdiff