514028 - Consistent, complete, documented & useful make <test> targets

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

We should have lots of top-level Makefile targets to run our various test suites.  We already have some, but it is my impression that (for instance) one still cannot run Talos that way.

Desiderata:

 * Every automated test suite has a top-level Makefile target that runs it.
 * These targets are consistently named (match the name the tests are most
   commonly known by)
 * They are documented in one place (a single MDC page)
 * One does not need extra magic incantations to run the test in the same way
   that the build farm does.

In addition, I would recommend two aggregate targets:

 * make alltests -- runs all of the test suites, appropriately isolated
   from each other.
 * make check -- runs acceptance tests for a third-party build.  This deserves
   more explanation than fits here so I'll file a separate bug for it.

This is a meta-bug; please make everything relevant depend on it.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Mass closing bugs with no activity in 2+ years. If this bug is important to you, please re-open.