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diff --git a/test/README.md b/test/README.md index 4e61a0774..9bea679dc 100644 --- a/test/README.md +++ b/test/README.md @@ -110,19 +110,30 @@ make shell This will run a container and give you a shell and you can follow the instructions above. -# System test +# System tests System tests are used for testing the *podman* CLI in the context of a complete system. It requires that *podman*, all dependencies, and configurations are in place. The intention of system testing is to match as closely as possible with real-world user/developer use-cases and environments. The orchestration of the environments and tests is left to external tooling. -* `PodmanTestSystem`: System test *struct* as a composite of `PodmanTest`. It will not add any -options to the command by default. When you run system test, you can set GLOBALOPTIONS, -PODMAN_SUBCMD_OPTIONS or PODMAN_BINARY in ENV to run the test suite for different test matrices. +System tests use Bash Automated Testing System (`bats`) as a testing framework. +Install it via your package manager or get latest stable version +[directly from the repository](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core), e.g.: -## Run system test -You can run the test with following command: +``` +mkdir -p ~/tools/bats +git clone --single-branch --branch v1.1.0 https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core.git ~/tools/bats +``` + +Make sure that `bats` binary (`bin/bats` in the repository) is in your `PATH`, if not - add it: + +``` +PATH=$PATH:~/tools/bats/bin +``` + +## Running system tests +When `bats` is installed and is in your `PATH`, you can run the test suite with following command: ``` make localsystem |