Hi Michael,

I don't have specific reason to use lava-test-case, I just want to give it try and familiar with the whole process. For the form "output test results in an easy to parse" you mentioned, would you send me a documentation link about it?

For the index error, here is the output log:

http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/dashboard/attachment/229774/view

http://validation.linaro.org/lava-server/dashboard/attachment/229749/view

For the source code I'm using, I installed LAVA by following these steps:

1. Add linaro-maintainers ppa;
2. apt-get update;
3. apt-get install

Is it the correct way?

Thank you.


Best Regards
Botao Sun

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@linaro.org> wrote:
Botao Sun <botao.sun@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi Michael,
>
> In the last 2 days I'm trying to write some test case definition files but
> I'm confused about the format. I have made some experiments and here is my
> observation:
>
> I use Panda ES as an example, and the YAML file looks like this:
>
> metadata:
>     format: Lava-Test Test Definition 1.0
>     name: botao-panda-es-ubuntu-test
>
> run:
>     steps:
>         - lava-test-case botao-panda-es-ubuntu-test-uname --shell echo
> "This is a test" || true
>         - lava-test-case botao-panda-es-ubuntu-test-uname --shell uname -a
> true
>         - lava-test-case botao-panda-es-ubuntu-test-uname --shell "ifconfig
> -a" || true

Firstly, is there a reason you're using the lava-test-case helper?  If
you can use the "output test results in an easy to parse" form, it's a
bit easier to work on.

> Then the second line will be failed to run by an index error:
>
> - lava-test-case botao-panda-es-ubuntu-test-uname --shell uname -a true

It will?  Can you post a link to a job that shows this?

> The first and the third line can be executed successfully. The "|| true"
> will let the command line to return a "true" value whatever its status.

I don't think that's necessary any more.  It was for a while, but not in
the latest release.

> But on the LAVA wikipage it says:
>
> The second form is indicated by the –shell argument, for example:
>
> run:
>   steps:
>     - "lava-test-case fail-test --shell false"
>     - "lava-test-case pass-test --shell true"
>
> Then if I write like the example shows, it will fail to run. So do we need
> to update that wiki example or is there something wrong in my understanding?

I think you might be using an out of date version of the code.

Cheers,
mwh