We're planning to move away from the rule

1 test == 1 directory

In order to do that, we need to be able to tell
the difference between a dropin test (this can
be written in any language as long as it is an
executable file) and an avocado test (a python
file that contains a test class derived from
the base avocado test file).

Introduce in the path library a path inspector,
that has code to figure this out.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

The timeout there is unnecessary and introduces races.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

It saves quite a lot of code, since this is such a common
operation in avocado.

I'd like to have the reviewer to give a good thought of
whether this is a good solution or not (I think it is,
although API names and such could be better thought off).
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Add a module for path related operations in avocado.utils.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

It is nice to be able to refer to modules using the
dot notation. This fixes some missing imports in the
avocado.utils module, as well as it removes unused
ones.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Having 'misc' libraries tends to encourage people to
dump random functions without much thought as to
their location. Let's rename 'misc' to 'io'.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Also, reorder write_file and write_one_line.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

That part is not going to be executed anyway. It's probably
a leftover from previous iterations.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

That function is not used in the avocado code base, and
it is superseded by standard library function
os.path.relpath().
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

The presence of a misc module encourages dumping functions
there without thought to better module names to put them
on. Let's remove the unique function since it can be
expressed by the combination of 2 native python types,
should the need arise.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Make reference to the 'trusty' ubuntu version, rather
than the outdated 'saucy'. Also, put the ubuntu
maintainer's email in the source generation package.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

tests/multiplextest: Fix typo

Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

tests/gendata: Fix unused variable

Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

I was stupid enough to have a typo in URL (see previous commit).
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

While we don't have a proper homepage, point to the avocado repo.
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Whiteboard as a "1st class citizen"

Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Based on some discussions, we decided to make the whiteboard a test
instance attribute (string) that is automatically exposed to test
results.

For the use case of persisting multiple files with the test result,
the test data dir can still be used (refer to the `gendata` test).
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

avocado: Rename test.datadir to test.outputdir and test.depsdir to test....

Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Make the names used consistent between attributes and
methods inside the Test class.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

In fact those names are more clear as to the purpose
of each directory.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Joblog bugfix

Make a reasonable effort in checking the amount of lines
avocado outputs to the job log. If it is less than a certain
amount, we might be having output problems.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

The JSON output plugin was stopping file output before
due time, therefore only the first instance of the test
was being logged. Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

I realize it was a bad naming choice I made while writing
the Job class the use of 'debugdir' and 'debuglog'. It should
have been 'logdir' and 'logfile', just as they are used in
the Test class. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

We don't enforce 80 columns, but in this case there was
no reason why we couldn't keep the docstring under said
restriction.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Add new test gendata

Add a new test that exercises the test whiteboard.

When run multiplexed, it writes both simple text and binary random
data, in different sizes and number of writes.
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

This introduces a simple file-like attribute of every single test,
named, you guessed it right, `whiteboard`.

This can be written multiple times during the test run, or a single
time at the very end of the test, as the test writter wishes.

It will be automatically closed (and flushed) when the test ends.
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Generates json and png images, and saves them at the newly introduced
test own data dir.
Signed-off-by: NCleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Add new test sleeptenmin

Sleep for 600 seconds, to see how avocado behaves under such
circumstances.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

Multiplextest

Add some exceptions to the Eclipse Pydev linting system,
so those false negatives don't show.
Signed-off-by: NLucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>