4 Portage has some tests that use the unittest framework that ships with python (2.3-2.4ish)
5 Tests have a specific naming convention.
7 in tests/ there is a runTest script that invokes tests/__init__.py
9 This init looks at a hardcoded list of test dirs to search for tests.
10 If you add a new dir and don't see your new tests, make sure that the dir is in this list.
12 On the subject of adding more directories; the layout is basically 1 directory per portage
13 file at this point (we have few files, and even fewer large files). Inside of the dir
14 you should have files of the form test_${function}.py.
16 So if I was to write a vercmp test, and vercmp is in portage_versions.
18 tests/portage_versions/test_vercmp.py
20 would be the filename.
22 The __init__.py file in tests only goes 1 deep (it's non-recursive, in other words). If
23 you end up with more directories it will probably break at present. Need to replace the
24 '/' in the directory path with a '.' (for proper importing). This should be trivial to fix.