Re: [yocto-patches] [wic][PATCH v3 01/10] tests: add the standalone test-suite skeleton

On Wed, 2026-07-01 at 03:40 -0400, Trevor Woerner via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> wic currently has no test mechanism of its own; it relies on the
> oe-selftest from oe-core for all its testing, which means a full
> bitbake build is needed to exercise even pure-Python logic. This
> commit lays the groundwork for a small standalone suite that runs
> from a plain checkout with nothing but pytest, so that logic can be
> pinned down and kept stable as the code evolves.
> 
> This commit adds the skeleton only; it does not add any tests.
> 
> What this adds:
> 
>   - pyproject.toml: a "tests" optional-dependency group (pytest only)
>     so that "pip install -e .[tests]" pulls in what the suite needs,
>     plus a [tool.pytest.ini_options] section. The pytest options keep
>     a test's scratch directory only when that test fails, so repeated
>     runs do not accumulate leftover files.
> 
>   - tests/unit/ and tests/docs/: the directories that hold the
>     in-process unit suites and the suite documentation. Git cannot
>     track an empty directory, so a placeholder .gitkeep is committed
>     in each to create it. The .gitkeep files have no content and are
>     removed once real files land in those directories.
> 
>   - .gitignore: ignore the .pytest_cache/ directory that pytest
>     writes at the top of the checkout.
> 
>   - README.md: a Testing section pointing at the suite and at
>     tests/docs/, and a tests/* entry in the project layout list.
> 
> AI-Generated: codex/claude-opus 4.7 (xhigh)
> Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Paul Barker <[email protected]>

Best regards,

-- 
Paul Barker

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