Avocado Test Writer’s Guide

• Writing an Executable Test
• Writing Avocado Tests with Python
  • Basic example
  • Multiple tests and naming conventions
  • Convenience Attributes
  • Test statuses
  • Test methods
  • Turning errors into failures
  • Turning errors into cancels
  • Saving test generated (custom) data
  • Accessing test data files
  • Accessing test parameters
  • Running multiple variants of tests
  • unittest.TestCase heritage
  • Running tests under other unittest runners
  • Setup and cleanup methods
  • Running third party test suites
  • Fetching asset files
  • Test log, stdout and stderr in native Avocado modules
  • Setting a Test Timeout
  • Skipping Tests
  • Canceling Tests
  • Docstring Directives
  • Declaring test as not being avocado-instrumented
  • Declaring test as being avocado-instrumented
  • (Deprecated) enabling recursive discovery
  • Categorizing tests
  • Python unittest Compatibility Limitations And Caveats
  • Environment Variables for Tests
  • SIMPLE Tests BASH extensions
  • Docstring Directives Rules
  • Signal Handlers
  • Wrap Up
• Advanced logging capabilities
  • Showing custom log streams
• Test parameters
  • TreeNode
  • AvocadoParams
  • Parameter Paths
  • Variant
  • Dumping/Loading Variants
  • Varianter
  • Test parameters
  • Varianter plugins
• Utility Libraries
  • avocado.utils.gdb
  • avocado.utils.vmimage
• Subclassing Avocado
• Integrating Avocado
  • Coverage.py