KYUA.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual KYUA.CONF(5)NAMEkyua.conf — Configuration file for the kyua tool
SYNOPSIS
syntax(int version);
Variables: architecture, platform, test_suites, unprivileged_user.
DESCRIPTION
The configuration of Kyua is a simple collection of key/value pairs
called configuration variables. There are configuration variables that
have a special meaning to the runtime engine implemented by kyua(1), and
there are variables that only have meaning in the context of particular
test suites.
Configuration files are Lua scripts. In their most basic form, their
whole purpose is to assign values to variables, but the user has the
freedom to implement any logic he desires to compute such values.
File versioning
Every kyua.conf file starts with a call to syntax(int version). This
call determines the specific schema used by the file so that future back‐
wards-incompatible modifications to the file can be introduced.
Any new kyua.conf file should set version to ‘2’.
Runtime configuration variables
The following variables are internally recognized by kyua(1):
architecture
Name of the system architecture (aka processor type).
parallelism
Maximum number of test cases to execute concurrently.
platform
Name of the system platform (aka machine type).
unprivileged_user
Name or UID of the unprivileged user.
If set, the given user must exist in the system and his privi‐
leges will be used to run test cases that need regular privi‐
leges when kyua(1) is executed as root.
Test-suite configuration variables
Each test suite is able to recognize arbitrary configuration variables,
and their type and meaning is specific to the test suite. Because the
existence and naming of these variables depends on every test suite, this
manual page cannot detail them; please refer to the documentation of the
test suite you are working with for more details on this topic.
Test-suite specific configuration variables are defined inside the
test_suites dictionary. The general syntax is:
test_suites.<test_suite_name>.<variable_name> = <value>
where test_suite_name is the name of the test suite, variable_name is the
name of the variable to set, and value is a value. The value can be a
string, an integer or a boolean.
FILES
/usr/local/share/examples/kyua/kyua.conf
Sample configuration file.
EXAMPLES
The following kyua.conf shows a simple configuration file that overrides
a bunch of the built-in kyua(1) configuration variables:
syntax(2)
architecture = 'x86_64'
platform = 'amd64'
The following is a more complex example that introduces the definition of
per-test suite configuration variables:
syntax(2)-- Assign built-in variables.
unprivileged_user = '_tests'
-- Assign test-suite variables. All of these must be strings.
test_suites.NetBSD.file_systems = 'ffs ext2fs'
test_suites.X11.graphics_driver = 'vesa'
SEE ALSOkyua(1)BSD February 20, 2015 BSD
