Results Specification

On a machine that executed Avocado, job results are available under [job-results]/job-[timestamp]-[short job ID], where logdir is the configured Avocado logs directory (see the data dir plugin), and the directory name includes a timestamp, such as job-2021-09-28T14.21-e0775d9. A typical results directory structure can be seen below

$HOME/avocado/job-results/job-2021-09-28T14.21-e0775d9/
├── avocado.core.DEBUG
├── id
├── jobdata
│   ├── args.json
│   ├── cmdline
│   ├── config
│   ├── pwd
│   ├── test_references
│   └── variants-1.json
├── job.log
├── results.html
├── results.json
├── results.tap
├── results.xml
├── sysinfo
│   ├── post
│   │   ├── brctl show
│   │   ├── cmdline
│   │   ├── cpuinfo
│   │   ├── current_clocksource
│   │   ├── df -mP
│   │   ├── dmesg
│   │   ├── dmidecode
│   │   ├── fdisk -l
│   │   ├── gcc --version
│   │   ├── hostname
│   │   ├── ifconfig -a
│   │   ├── interrupts
│   │   ├── ip link
│   │   ├── journalctl.gz
│   │   ├── ld --version
│   │   ├── lscpu
│   │   ├── lspci -vvnn
│   │   ├── meminfo
│   │   ├── modules
│   │   ├── mounts
│   │   ├── numactl --hardware show
│   │   ├── partitions
│   │   ├── pci
│   │   ├── scaling_governor
│   │   ├── sched_features
│   │   ├── slabinfo
│   │   ├── uname -a
│   │   ├── uptime
│   │   └── version
│   ├── pre
│   │   ├── brctl show
│   │   ├── cmdline
│   │   ├── cpuinfo
│   │   ├── current_clocksource
│   │   ├── df -mP
│   │   ├── dmesg
│   │   ├── dmidecode
│   │   ├── fdisk -l
│   │   ├── gcc --version
│   │   ├── hostname
│   │   ├── ifconfig -a
│   │   ├── interrupts
│   │   ├── ip link
│   │   ├── ld --version
│   │   ├── lscpu
│   │   ├── lspci -vvnn
│   │   ├── meminfo
│   │   ├── modules
│   │   ├── mounts
│   │   ├── numactl --hardware show
│   │   ├── partitions
│   │   ├── pci
│   │   ├── scaling_governor
│   │   ├── sched_features
│   │   ├── slabinfo
│   │   ├── uname -a
│   │   ├── uptime
│   │   └── version
│   └── profile
└── test-results
    ├── 1-examples_tests_sleeptest.py_SleepTest.test
    │   ├── debug.log
    │   └── whiteboard
    ├── 2-examples_tests_sleeptest.py_SleepTest.test
    │   ├── debug.log
    │   └── whiteboard
    └── 3-examples_tests_sleeptest.py_SleepTest.test
        ├── debug.log
        └── whiteboard

From what you can see, the results directory has:

1. A human readable id in the top level, with the job SHA1.

2. A human readable job.log in the top level, with human readable logs of the task

3. Subdirectory jobdata, that contains machine readable data about the job.

4. A machine readable results.xml and results.json in the top level, with a summary of the job information in xUnit/json format.

5. A top level sysinfo dir, with sub directories pre, post and profile, that store sysinfo files pre/post/during job, respectively.

6. Subdirectory test-results, that contains a number of subdirectories (filesystem-friendly test ids). Those test ids represent instances of test execution results.

Test execution instances specification

The instances should have:

1. A top level human readable job.log, with job debug information

2. A sysinfo subdirectory, with sub directories pre, post and profile that store sysinfo files pre test, post test and profiling info while the test was running, respectively.

3. A data subdirectory, where the test can output a number of files if necessary.