ASCII art diagrams are well suited for presenting the topology that a test uses while being easy to embed directly in the test file iteslf. They make the information very easy to grasp even for simple topologies, and for more complex ones they are almost essential, as figuring out the interconnects from the script itself proves to be difficult.
Therefore state the requirement for topology ASCII art in README.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata petrm@mellanox.com Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com --- tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README index 4a0964c42860..b8a2af8fcfb7 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Guidelines for Writing Tests
o Where possible, reuse an existing topology for different tests instead of recreating the same topology. +o Tests that use anything but the most trivial topologies should include + an ASCII art showing the topology. o Where possible, IPv6 and IPv4 addresses shall conform to RFC 3849 and RFC 5737, respectively. o Where possible, tests shall be written so that they can be reused by