Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a test failure.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com ---
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tools/patman/patman.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst index 8c5c9cc2cc..b06399b459 100644 --- a/tools/patman/patman.rst +++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst @@ -680,6 +680,12 @@ them:
$ tools/patman/patman test
+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.