Tests that are likely to smoke out future regressions are better
than tests that just inflate the coverage metrics.
+ - When a test checks for an absolute path that a git command generated,
+ construct the expected value using $(pwd) rather than $PWD,
+ $TEST_DIRECTORY, or $TRASH_DIRECTORY. It makes a difference on
+ Windows, where the shell (MSYS bash) mangles absolute path names.
+ For details, see the commit message of 4114156ae9.
+
Don't:
- exit() within a <script> part.
Skipping tests
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-If you need to skip tests you should do so be using the three-arg form
+If you need to skip tests you should do so by using the three-arg form
of the test_* functions (see the "Test harness library" section
below), e.g.: