gtester

gtester — test running utility

Synopsis

gtester [option...] [testprogram]

Description

gtester is a utility to run unit tests that have been written using the GLib test framework.

When called with the -o option, gtester writes an XML report of the test results, which can be converted into HTML using the gtester-report utility.

Options

-h, --help

print help and exit

-v, --version

print version information and exit

--g-fatal-warnings

make warnings fatal

-k, --keep-going

continue running after tests failed

-l

list paths of available test cases

-m=MODE

run test cases in MODE, which can be one of:

<term>perf</term><listitem>

run performance tests

</listitem>
<term>slow, thorough</term><listitem>

run slow tests, or repeat non-deterministic tests more often

</listitem>
<term>quick</term><listitem>

do not run slow or performance tests, or do extra repeats of non-deterministic tests (default)

</listitem>
<term>undefined</term><listitem>

run test cases that deliberately provoke checks or assertion failures, if implemented (default)

</listitem>
<term>no-undefined</term><listitem>

do not run test cases that deliberately provoke checks or assertion failures

</listitem>

-p=TESTPATH

only run test cases matching TESTPATH

-s=TESTPATH

skip test cases matching TESTPATH

--seed=SEEDSTRING

run all test cases with random number seed SEEDSTRING

-o=LOGFILE

write the test log to LOGFILE

-q, --quiet

suppress per test binary output

--verbose

report success per testcase

See also

gtester-report(1)