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Reference
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The First Chapter of the Second Part
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Chapters grouped into book parts are at level 1 and can contain
sub-sections.

The testconfig File
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Setup section
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Header
^^^^^^

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[setup]
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The runscript method is a brute force way to run scripts where the
user is responsible for setting STATE and STATUS

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runscript main.csh
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Requirements section
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Header
^^^^^^

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[requirements]
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Wait on Other Tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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# A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED 
# and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED
waiton test1 test2
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Mode
^^^^

The default (i.e. if mode is not specified) is normal. All pre-dependent tests
must be COMPLETED and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED before the test will start

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mode   normal
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The toplevel mode requires only that the prior tests are COMPLETED.

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mode toplevel
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A item based waiton will start items in a test when the
same-named item is COMPLETED and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED
in the prior test

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mode itemmatch
-------------------

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# With a toplevel test you may wish to generate your list 
# of tests to run dynamically
#
# waiton #{shell get-valid-tests-to-run.sh}
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Run time limit
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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runtimelim 1h 2m 3s  # this will automatically kill the test if it runs for more than 1h 2m and 3s
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Skip
^^^^

Header
^^^^^^

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[skip]
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Skip on Still-running Tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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# NB// If the prevrunning line exists with *any* value the test will 
# automatically SKIP if the same-named test is currently RUNNING

prevrunning x
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Skip if a File Exists
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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fileexists /path/to/a/file # skip if /path/to/a/file exists
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Controlled waiver propagation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If test is FAIL and previous test in run with same MT_TARGET is WAIVED then apply the following rules from the testconfig:
If a waiver check is specified in the testconfig apply the check and if it passes then set this FAIL to WAIVED

Waiver check has two parts, 1) a list of waiver, rulename, filepatterns and 2) the rulename script spec (note that "diff" and "logpro" are predefined)

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###### EXAMPLE FROM testconfig #########
# matching file(s) will be diff'd with previous run and logpro applied
# if PASS or WARN result from logpro then WAIVER state is set
#
[waivers]
# logpro_file    rulename      input_glob
waiver_1         logpro        lookittmp.log

[waiver_rules]

# This builtin rule is the default if there is no <waivername>.logpro file
# diff   diff %file1% %file2%

# This builtin rule is applied if a <waivername>.logpro file exists
# logpro diff %file1% %file2% | logpro %waivername%.logpro %waivername%.html
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Ezsteps
~~~~~~~

To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:

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$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}	  
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Triggers
~~~~~~~~

In your testconfig 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, 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 --

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