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diff --git a/tests/README b/tests/README index c2fea8db1..79be8eb35 100644 --- a/tests/README +++ b/tests/README @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ TCP ports used by default: on one machine. Run: - 'make test'. This invokes the 'runtests.pl' perl script. Edit the top - variables of that script in case you have some specific needs. + 'make test'. This builds the test suite support code and invokes the + 'runtests.pl' perl script to run all the tests. Edit the top variables + of that script in case you have some specific needs, or run the script + manually (after the support code has been built). The script breaks on the first test that doesn't do OK. Use -a to prevent the script from abort on the first error. Run the script with -v for more @@ -58,6 +60,11 @@ Memory: automatically detect if that is the case, and it will use the ../memanalyze script to analyze the memory debugging output. + The -t option will enable torture testing mode, which runs each test + many times but causes a different memory allocation to fail on each + successive run. This tests the out of memory error handling code to + ensure that memory leaks do not occur even in those situations. + Debug: If a test case fails, you can conveniently get the script to invoke the debugger (gdb) for you with the server running and the exact same command |