92.0 Monsters, Inc.

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 92.0, AKA “Monsters, Inc.”, is now available!

Release documentation: Avocado 92.0

Important Announcement

On the previous version (91.0), Avocado has switched the default runner, from the implementation most people currently use (internally simply called runner), to the newer architecture and implementation called nrunner).

Users migrating from Avocado 90.0 or earlier versions will be impacted by this change and should act accordingly.

To keep using the current (soon to be legacy) runner, you must set the --test-runner=runner command line option (or the equivalent test_runner configuration option, under section [run]).

Known issues are being tracked on our GitHub project page, with the nrunner tag, and new issue reports are appreciated.

Users/Test Writers

  • The Human UI plugin can now be configured to omit certain statuses from being shown in a new line. This can be used, for instance, to prevent the STARTED lines to be shown, showing only the final test result.

  • The nrunner exec runnable kind does not exist anymore, and its functionality was consolidated into the exec-test.

  • Executing Python’s unittest that are skipped are now always shown as having status SKIP, instead of the previous CANCEL.

  • Avocado will no longer incorporate log messages coming from any logger (including the “root logger”) into the test’s and job’s log files. Only loggers that under the avocado. namespace will be included. Users are encouraged to continue to follow the pattern:

    self.log.info("message goes here")

    When logging from a test. When logging from somewhere else, the following pattern is advised (replace my.namespace accordingly):

    import logging
LOG = logging.getLogger('avocado.my.namespace')
LOG.info('your message')

  • Python 3.10 is now fully supported.

  • The reason for fail/error/skip tests in Python unittest are now given on the various test result formats (including on the UI).

Bug Fixes

  • Properties, that is, methods decorated with @property are no longer seen as tests.

  • If a path to a Python unittest file contained dots, the conversion to a unittest “dotted name” would fail.

  • Tests on classes that inherit from one marked with :avocado: disable were not being detected.

Utility APIs

  • A specific exception, and thus a clearer error message, is now used when a command with an empty string is given to avocado.utils.process.run().

Misc Changes

  • Added example jobs for exec-test runnables, and for YAML to Mux.

  • The test logs on the nrunner generated debug.log file are now prefixed with [stdlog] instead of [debug] to avoid confusion with the log level of same name.

  • Added setuptools entry-points for all nrunner implementations under avocado.plugins.runnable.runner.

  • The Podman spawner now checks for the existence of the podman binary earlier.

  • Misc documentation improvements.

Internal Changes

  • CI deployment checks with different installation methods (sources) were added.

  • The --disable-plugin-check argument to selftests/check.py now properly accepts multiple plugin names.

  • Templates for GitHub issues for bugs and feature requests were added.

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For more information, please check out the complete Avocado changelog.