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NAME

gtester - test running utility

SYNOPSIS

gtester [OPTION...] [testprogram]

DESCRIPTION

gtester

is a utility to run unit tests that have been written using the GLib test framework.

When called with the -o option, gtester writes an XML report of the test results, which can be converted into HTML using the gtester-report utility.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

: print help and exit

-v, --version

: print version information and exit

--g-fatal-warnings

: make warnings fatal

-k, --keep-going

: continue running after tests failed

-l

: list paths of available test cases

-m=MODE

run test cases in MODE, which can be one of:

perf

: run performance tests

slow, thorough

: run slow tests, or repeat non-deterministic tests more often

quick

: do not run slow or performance tests, or do extra repeats of non-deterministic tests (default)

undefined

: run test cases that deliberately provoke checks or assertion failures, if implemented (default)

no-undefined

: do not run test cases that deliberately provoke checks or assertion failures

-p=TESTPATH

: only run test cases matching TESTPATH

-s=TESTPATH

: skip test cases matching TESTPATH

--seed=SEEDSTRING

: run all test cases with random number seed SEEDSTRING

-o=LOGFILE

: write the test log to LOGFILE

-q, --quiet

: suppress per test binary output

--verbose

: report success per testcase