From 9d88d1d095a60ba592fee6ec977dd40cdc74abc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Purdie Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:28:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bitbake: README: Add note about test suite and new tests Document that bitbake-selftest exists and that we appreciate test cases. (Bitbake rev: 52896ca1fabd22cce01b75cc6fe3412b1ec09b5b) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- bitbake/README | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/bitbake/README b/bitbake/README index 96e6007e7f..5527e9fbbf 100644 --- a/bitbake/README +++ b/bitbake/README @@ -33,3 +33,11 @@ Mailing list: Source code: http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/ + +Testing: + +Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. +You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since +it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is +recommended becore submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also +appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.