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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-03-10 20:42:12 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-03-10 22:13:04 +0100
commitfb68fba05f1b43cc9715fdb99e573b000bdb7969 (patch)
treec11e806ade36f196e214477bfe728249389ffcce /test/README.external
parentd3bc98058599a5feffbe68d4e5f2ca43a698d95b (diff)
Encourage having external tests in multiple test recipes
This will make the individual external tests more easily selectable / deselectable through the usual test selection mechanism. This also moves external tests to group 95. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2902)
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@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
-Running the BoringSSL test suite with OpenSSL
-=============================================
-
-It is possible to integrate external test suites into OpenSSL's "make test". At
-the current time the only supported external suite is the one used by
-BoringSSL.
+Running external test suites with OpenSSL
+=========================================
+It is possible to integrate external test suites into OpenSSL's "make test".
This capability is considered a developer option and may not work on all
platforms.
+At the current time the only supported external suite is the one used by
+BoringSSL.
+
+
+The BoringSSL test suite
+========================
+
In order to run the BoringSSL tests with OpenSSL, first checkout the BoringSSL
source code into an appropriate directory:
@@ -40,11 +44,11 @@ To see more detailed output you can run just the BoringSSL tests with the
verbose option:
$ VERBOSE=1 BORING_RUNNER_DIR=/path/to/boringssl/ssl/test/runner make \
- TESTS="test_external" test
+ TESTS="test_external_boringssl" test
Test failures and suppressions
-==============================
+------------------------------
A large number of the BoringSSL tests are known to fail. A test could fail
because of many possible reasons. For example: