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@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer maxim.cournoyer@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.