[PATCH v3 7/8] patman: document how to run test suite via pytest

Maxim Cournoyer maxim.cournoyer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 23:32:44 CET 2022


Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a
regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a
test failure.

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer at savoirfairelinux.com>
---

(no changes since v1)

 tools/patman/patman.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst
index ff4c8b3ed2..395fc0cd75 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patman.rst
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst
@@ -684,6 +684,12 @@ Note that since the test suite depends on data files only available in
 the git checkout, the `test` command is hidden unless `patman` is
 invoked from the U-Boot git repository.
 
+Alternatively, you can run the test suite via Pytest:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ cd tools/patman && pytest
+
 Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
 putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.
 
-- 
2.38.1



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