We have tests that are failing in some environments, but it's
difficult to handle them because:
- for some environments we just allow all the tests to fail: DANGEROUS
- when we don't allow failures we have flacky tests: A CI pain
So, to avoid this and ensure that:
- New failing tests are tracked in all platforms
- gitlab integration on tests reports is working
- coverage is reported also for failing tests
Add support for `can_fail` keyword on tests that would mark the test as
part of the `failing` test suite.
Not adding the suite directly when defining the tests as this is
definitely simpler and allows to define conditions more clearly (see next
commits).
Now, add a default test setup that does not run the failing and flaky tests
by default (not to bother distributors with testing well-known issues) and
eventually run all the tests in CI:
- Non-flaky tests cannot fail in all platforms
- Failing and Flaky tests can fail
In both cases we save the test reports so that gitlab integration is
preserved.
ginsttest-runner defaults to timing out each test after 5 minutes,
but gobject/tests/performance/performance.c defaults to running each
of 18 tests for 15 seconds. The result is close enough to 5 minutes
that the setup overhead is enough to make it time out.
We're only running these tests to prove that they still work, not to
get meaningful performance numbers, so cut them down to 1 second per
test-case (the result of which is that performance.c takes about a
minute).
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Pass arguments to them so that they take minimal time. This will not
produce useful performance profiling results, but will smoketest that
the tests still run, don’t crash, and therefore probably aren’t
bitrotting too badly.
This is useful because a fair amount of work has gone into these
performance tests, and they’re useful every few years to analyse and
compare GObject performance. We don’t want them to bitrot between uses.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This doesn’t change the tests’ behaviour, but moves them to a slightly
more logical location.
They are still not installed or run by default.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #1434
