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John Ericson c11836126b Harden tests' bash
Use `set -u` and `set -o pipefail` to catch accidental mistakes and
failures more strongly.

 - `set -u` catches the use of undefined variables
 - `set -o pipefail` catches failures (like `set -e`) earlier in the
   pipeline.

This makes the tests a bit more robust. It is nice to read code not
worrying about these spurious success paths (via uncaught) errors
undermining the tests. Indeed, I caught some bugs doing this.

There are a few tests where we run a command that should fail, and then
search its output to make sure the failure message is one that we
expect. Before, since the `grep` was the last command in the pipeline
the exit code of those failing programs was silently ignored. Now with
`set -o pipefail` it won't be, and we have to do something so the
expected failure doesn't accidentally fail the test.

To do that we use `expect` and a new `expectStderr` to check for the
exact failing exit code. See the comments on each for why.

`grep -q` is replaced with `grepQuiet`, see the comments on that
function for why.

`grep -v` when we just want the exit code is replaced with `grepInverse,
see the comments on that function for why.

`grep -q -v` together is, surprise surprise, replaced with
`grepQuietInverse`, which is both combined.

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-08 10:26:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 55849e153e Change error position formatting
It's now

  at /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix:7:7:

instead of

  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

The new format is more standard and clickable.
2021-01-21 11:02:09 +01:00
Ben Burdette dabbb4538f 'from string' 2020-06-30 16:43:01 -06:00
Ben Burdette 00fe653ea5 nixCode -> LinesOfCode 2020-06-24 08:33:53 -06:00
Ben Burdette 0e49de6a2b position for stdin, string; (string) for trace; fix tests 2020-05-21 14:28:45 -06:00
Ben Burdette 55eb717148 add pos to errorinfo, remove from hints 2020-05-08 18:18:28 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 84989d3af2
Improve filtering of ANSI escape sequences in build logs
All ANSI sequences except color setting are now filtered out. In
particular, terminal resets (such as from NixOS VM tests) are filtered
out.

Also, fix the completely broken tab character handling.
2018-02-07 15:23:57 +01:00
Iwan Aucamp 75837651f1 Output line number on infinite recursion 2015-07-31 20:26:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e1cf40fa95 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse 2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f766e146f4 Fix the test 2012-10-03 18:01:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8af7d766f0 * Refactoring: remove unnecessary variables from the tests. 2011-10-10 21:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 84c4631221 * Simplification. 2006-03-01 12:51:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a4c63c6e8e * Make it easy to run individual tests from the command line. 2006-03-01 12:15:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f0d6318dd1 * More tests. 2006-02-22 14:02:44 +00:00