Megatest

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[items]
A a b c
B d e f
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Then the config file would effectively appear to contain an items section
exactly like the output from the script. This is useful when dynamically
creating items, itemstables and other config structures. You can see the
expansion of the call by looking in the cached files (look in your linktree
for megatest.config and runconfigs.config cache files and in your test run
areas for the expanded and cached testconfig).

Wildcards and regexes in Targets

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[a/2/b]
VAR1 VAL1

[a/%/b]
VAR1 VAL2
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Will result in:

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[a/2/b]
VAR1 VAL2
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Can use either wildcard of "%" or a regular expression:

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[/abc.*def/]
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Disk Space Checks
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Some parameters you can put in the [setup] section of megatest.config:

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Attempt to rerun tests in "STUCK/DEAD", "n/a", "ZERO_ITEMS" states.

.In megatest.config
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[setup]
reruns 5
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Replace the default blacklisted environment variables with user supplied
list.

Default list: USER HOME DISPLAY LS_COLORS XKEYSYMDB EDITOR MAKEFLAGS MAKEF MAKEOVERRIDES

.Add a "bad" variable "PROMPT" to the variables that will be commented out
in the megatest.sh and megatest.csh files:
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[setup]
blacklistvars USER HOME DISPLAY LS_COLORS XKEYSYMDB EDITOR MAKEFLAGS PROMPT
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Run time limit
++++++++++++++

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[setup]
# this will automatically kill the test if it runs for more than 1h 2m and 3s

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$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}	  
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Triggers
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In your testconfig or megatest.config triggers can be specified 

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[triggers]

# Call script running.sh when test goes to state=RUNNING, status=PASS
RUNNING/PASS running.sh

# Call script running.sh any time state goes to RUNNING
RUNNING/ running.sh

# Call script onpass.sh any time status goes to PASS
PASS/ onpass.sh
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Scripts called will have; test-id test-rundir trigger test-name item-path state status event-time, added to the commandline.

HINT

To start an xterm (useful for debugging), use a command line like the following:

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[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s -- 
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NOTE: There is a trailing space after the --

There are a number of environment variables available to the trigger script
but since triggers can be called in various contexts not all variables are
available at all times. The trigger script should check for the variable and
fail gracefully if it doesn't exist.

.Environment variables visible to the trigger script
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|======================
|Variable             | Purpose            
| MT_TEST_RUN_DIR     | The directory where Megatest ran this test                   
| MT_CMDINFO          | Encoded command data for the test                   
| MT_DEBUG_MODE       | Used to pass the debug mode to nested calls to Megatest                   
| MT_RUN_AREA_HOME    | Megatest home area 
| MT_TESTSUITENAME    | The name of this testsuite or area                   
| MT_TEST_NAME        | The name of this test
| MT_ITEM_INFO        | The variable and values for the test item
| MT_MEGATEST         | Which Megatest binary is being used by this area
| MT_TARGET           | The target variable values, separated by '/'
| MT_LINKTREE         | The base of the link tree where all run tests can be found
| MT_ITEMPATH         | The values of the item path variables, separated by '/'
| MT_RUNNAME          | The name of the run
|======================


Override the Toplevel HTML File
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Megatest generates a simple html file summary for top level tests of
iterated tests. The generation can be overridden. NOTE: the output of