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<body class="book">
<div id="header">
<h1>The Megatest Users Manual</h1>
<span id="author">Matt Welland</span><br />
<span id="email"><tt>&lt;<a href="mailto:matt@kiatoa.com">matt@kiatoa.com</a>&gt;</tt></span><br />
<span id="author">Matt Welland</span><br>
<span id="email" class="monospaced">&lt;<a href="mailto:matt@kiatoa.com">matt@kiatoa.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<span id="revnumber">version 1.0,</span>
<span id="revdate">April 2012</span>
<div id="toc">
  <div id="toctitle">Table of Contents</div>
  <noscript><p><b>JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to display the table of contents.</b></p></noscript>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_preface">Preface</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.</p></div>
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<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_dependencies">Dependencies</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Chicken scheme and a number of "eggs" are required for building
Megatest. See the script installall.sch in the utils directory of the
distribution for a mostly automated way to install everything needed
for building Megatest on Linux.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p><span class="footnote"><br />[An example footnote.]<br /></span></p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p><span class="footnote"><br>[An example footnote.]<br></span></p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>And now for something completely different: monkeys, lions and
tigers (Bengal and Siberian) using the alternative syntax index
entries.



Note that multi-entry terms generate separate index entries.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Here are a couple of image examples: an <span class="image">
<img src="images/smallnew.png" alt="images/smallnew.png" />
<img src="images/smallnew.png" alt="images/smallnew.png">
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<div class="imageblock">
<div class="content">
<img src="images/tiger.png" alt="Tiger image" />
<img src="images/tiger.png" alt="Tiger image">
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<div class="title">Figure 1. Tiger block image</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Followed by an example table:</p></div>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">-a <em>USER GROUP</em></p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">-a <em>USER GROUP</em></p></td>
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<div class="content">
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<span class="footnote"><br>[A second example footnote.]<br></span></p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_limiting_your_running_jobs">Limiting your running jobs</h2>
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<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[test_meta]
jobgroup group1</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[test_meta]
jobgroup group1</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In your megatest.config:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[jobgroups]
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[jobgroups]
group1 10
custdes 4</tt></pre>
custdes 4</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_debugging_tricks">Debugging Tricks</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_examining_the_environment">Examining The Environment</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_during_config_file_processing">During Config File Processing</h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_organising_your_tests_and_tasks">Organising Your Tests and Tasks</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[tests-paths]
1 #{get misc parent}/simplerun/tests</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[tests-paths]
1 #{get misc parent}/simplerun/tests</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[setup]</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The runscript method is a brute force way to run scripts where the
user is responsible for setting STATE and STATUS</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>runscript main.csh</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>runscript main.csh</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_debugging_server_problems">Debugging Server Problems</h3>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>sudo lsof -i
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>sudo lsof -i
sudo netstat -lptu
sudo netstat -tulpn</tt></pre>
sudo netstat -tulpn</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<h1 id="_reference">Reference</h1>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_config_file_settings">Config File Settings</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_trim_trailing_spaces">Trim trailing spaces</h3>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[configf:settings trim-trailing-spaces yes]</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[configf:settings trim-trailing-spaces yes]</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_testconfig_file">The testconfig File</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_setup_section">Setup section</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_header">Header</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[setup]</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The runscript method is a brute force way to run scripts where the
user is responsible for setting STATE and STATUS</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>runscript main.csh</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>runscript main.csh</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_requirements_section">Requirements section</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_header_2">Header</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[requirements]</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[requirements]</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_wait_on_other_tests">Wait on Other Tests</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre># A normal waiton waits for the prior tests to be COMPLETED
# and PASS, CHECK or WAIVED
waiton test1 test2</tt></pre>
waiton test1 test2</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_mode">Mode</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>mode   normal</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>mode   normal</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The toplevel mode requires only that the prior tests are COMPLETED.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>mode toplevel</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>mode toplevel</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>mode itemmatch</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>mode itemmatch</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># With a toplevel test you may wish to generate your list
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre># With a toplevel test you may wish to generate your list
# of tests to run dynamically
#
# waiton #{shell get-valid-tests-to-run.sh}</tt></pre>
# waiton #{shell get-valid-tests-to-run.sh}</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_run_time_limit">Run time limit</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>runtimelim 1h 2m 3s  # this will automatically kill the test if it runs for more than 1h 2m and 3s</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>runtimelim 1h 2m 3s  # this will automatically kill the test if it runs for more than 1h 2m and 3s</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_skip">Skip</h4>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_header_3">Header</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[skip]</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[skip]</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_skip_on_still_running_tests">Skip on Still-running Tests</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># NB// If the prevrunning line exists with *any* value the test will
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre># NB// If the prevrunning line exists with *any* value the test will
# automatically SKIP if the same-named test is currently RUNNING

prevrunning x</tt></pre>
prevrunning x</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_skip_if_a_file_exists">Skip if a File Exists</h4>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>fileexists /path/to/a/file # skip if /path/to/a/file exists</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>fileexists /path/to/a/file # skip if /path/to/a/file exists</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_controlled_waiver_propagation">Controlled waiver propagation</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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)</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>###### EXAMPLE FROM testconfig #########
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>###### 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 &lt;waivername&gt;.logpro file
# diff   diff %file1% %file2%

# This builtin rule is applied if a &lt;waivername&gt;.logpro file exists
# logpro diff %file1% %file2% | logpro %waivername%.logpro %waivername%.html</tt></pre>
# logpro diff %file1% %file2% | logpro %waivername%.logpro %waivername%.html</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ezsteps">Ezsteps</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_triggers">Triggers</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In your testconfig triggers can be specified</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[triggers]
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[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</tt></pre>
PASS/ onpass.sh</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Scripts called will have; test-id test-rundir trigger, added to the commandline.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>HINT</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To start an xterm (useful for debugging), use a command line like the following:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</tt></pre>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="admonitionblock">
<table><tr>
<td class="icon">
<div class="title">Note</div>
<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.001/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
</td>
<td class="content">There is a trailing space after the --</td>
</tr></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_override_the_toplevel_html_file">Override the Toplevel HTML File</h2>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_override_the_toplevel_html_file">Override the Toplevel HTML File</h3>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest generates a simple html file summary for top level tests of
iterated tests. The generation can be overridden.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="title">For test "runfirst" override the toplevel generation with a script "mysummary.sh"</div>
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># Override the rollup for specific tests
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre># Override the rollup for specific tests
[testrollup]
runfirst mysummary.sh</tt></pre>
runfirst mysummary.sh</pre>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_programming_api">Programming API</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>These routines can be called from the megatest repl.</p></div>
<div class="tableblock">
<table rules="all"
width="70%"
frame="hsides"
<table class="tableblock frame-topbot grid-all"
style="
width:70%;
">
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<caption class="title">Table 2. API Server Management Calls</caption>
<col width="14%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col style="width:14%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<thead>
<tr>
<th align="center" valign="top">API Call                  </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Purpose comments   </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Returns                 </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Comments</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" >API Call                  </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Purpose comments   </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Returns                 </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><p class="table">(rmt:login        run-id)</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>Verify the the version, testsuite area etc. are correct.</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>#( #t "successful login" )</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">(rmt:login        run-id)</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">Verify the the version, testsuite area etc. are correct.</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">#( #t "successful login" )</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><p class="table">(rmt:start-server run-id)</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>#( success/fail   n/a )</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">(rmt:start-server run-id)</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">#( success/fail   n/a )</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><p class="table">(rmt:kill-server  run-id)</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>#( success/fail   n/a )</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>Works only if the server is still reachable</tt></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">(rmt:kill-server  run-id)</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">#( success/fail   n/a )</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">Works only if the server is still reachable</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="tableblock">
<table rules="all"
width="70%"
frame="hsides"
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="tableblock frame-topbot grid-all"
style="
width:70%;
">
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<caption class="title">Table 3. API Keys Related Calls</caption>
<col width="14%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col style="width:14%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<col style="width:28%;">
<thead>
<tr>
<th align="center" valign="top">API Call                        </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Purpose comments   </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Returns                 </th>
<th align="left" valign="top"> Comments</th>
<th class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" >API Call                        </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Purpose comments   </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Returns                 </th>
<th class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" > Comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><p class="table">(rmt:get-key-val-pairs run-id)</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>#t=success/#f=fail</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>Works only if the server is still reachable</tt></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">(rmt:get-key-val-pairs run-id)</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">#t=success/#f=fail</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">Works only if the server is still reachable</p></td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><p class="table">(rmt:get-keys run-id)</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>( key1 key2 &#8230; )</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt></tt></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">(rmt:get-keys run-id)</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">( key1 key2 &#8230; )</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced"></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_megatest_internals">Megatest Internals</h3>
<div class="imageblock graphviz">
<div class="content">
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_example_appendix">Appendix A: Example Appendix</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>One or more optional appendixes go here at section level zero.</p></div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_appendix_sub_section">Appendix Sub-section</h3>
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<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.001/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
</td>
<td class="content">Preface and appendix subsections start out of sequence at level
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