libgit2 tests

These are the unit and integration tests for the libgit2 projects.

• benchmarks These are benchmark tests that excercise the CLI.
• clar
  This is clar the common test framework.
• headertest
  This is a simple project that ensures that our public headers are compatible with extremely strict compilation options.
• libgit2
  These tests exercise the core git functionality in libgit2 itself.
• resources
  These are the resources for the tests, including files and git repositories.
• util
  These are tests of the common utility library.

Writing tests for libgit2

libgit2 uses the clar test framework, a C testing framework.

The best resources for learning clar are clar itself and the existing tests within libgit2. In general:

• If you place a .c file into a test directory, it is eligible to contain test cases.

• The function name for your test is important; test function names begin with test_, followed by the folder path (underscore separated), two underscores as a delimiter, then the test name. For example, a file merge/analysis.c may contain a test uptodate:

  void test_merge_analysis__uptodate(void)
  {
    ...
  }
  

• You can run an individual test by passing -s to the test runner. Tests are referred to by their function names; for example, the function test_merge_analysis__uptodate is referred to as merge::analysis::uptodate. To run only that function you can use the -s option on the test runner:

  libgit2_tests -smerge::analysis::uptodate
  

Memory leak checking

These are automatically run as part of CI, but if you want to check locally:

Linux

Uses valgrind:

$ cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DVALGRIND=ON ..
$ cmake --build .
$ valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --num-callers=50 --suppressions=../libgit2_tests.supp \
  ./libgit2_tests

macOS

Uses leaks, which requires XCode installed:

$ MallocStackLogging=1 MallocScribble=1 MallocLogFile=/dev/null CLAR_AT_EXIT="leaks -quiet \$PPID" \
  ./libgit2_tests

Windows

Build with the WIN32_LEAKCHECK option:

$ cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DWIN32_LEAKCHECK=ON ..
$ cmake --build .
$ ./libgit2_tests