The functional tests currently don't allow a single test to be
selected for execution by dotted name, e.g:

../tests/functional/ppc64/test_pseries.py PseriesMachine.test_ppc64_linux_boot
                                          ^
The issue is that the testcase.py main function passes the test
module's name as the second argument to unittest.main(), which makes
it ignore all other positional arguments (presumably because the
module is already the superset of all tests).

After commit cac08383f0 ("tests/functional: expose sys.argv to
unittest.main"), the situation improves by passing the rest of the
argv from the command line invocation into unittest.main(), but it
still doesn't fix the issue. The short form options are now accepted,
so the -k option could be used to filter for a pattern, which is
useful, but not the same as listing the test names.

Fix this by passing the test module name via the "module" argument to
unittest.main() and stop touching argv. The ways of invoking tests are
now as per unittests documentation (-k still works):

  Examples:
    test_pseries.py                           - run default set of tests
    test_pseries.py MyTestSuite               - run suite 'MyTestSuite'
    test_pseries.py MyTestCase.testSomething  - run MyTestCase.testSomething
    test_pseries.py MyTestCase                - run all 'test*' test methods in MyTestCase

Note that ever since we've been programatically passing the module
name to unittest.main(), the usage 'test_pseries.py test_pseries' was
never valid. It used to "work" just the same as 'test_pseries.py
foobar' would. After this patch, that usage results in an error.

Also note that testcase.py:main() pertains to running the test module
that invoked it via QemuSystemTest.main(), i.e. module == __main__. So
the 'discover' usage of unittest doesn't apply here, the module is
already discovered because that's where this code was called from to
begin with. This patch could just as well call unittest.main() instead
of unittest.main(test_module), but the latter provides nicer error
messages prefixed with the module name.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
---
 tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py b/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
index 58f2740100..fa100d9632 100644
--- a/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
+++ b/tests/functional/qemu_test/testcase.py
@@ -249,17 +249,16 @@ def main():
         warnings.simplefilter("default")
         os.environ["PYTHONWARNINGS"] = "default"
 
-        path = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])[:-3]
+        test_module = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])[:-3]
 
         cache = os.environ.get("QEMU_TEST_PRECACHE", None)
         if cache is not None:
-            Asset.precache_suites(path, cache)
+            Asset.precache_suites(test_module, cache)
             return
 
         tr = pycotap.TAPTestRunner(message_log = pycotap.LogMode.LogToError,
                                    test_output_log = pycotap.LogMode.LogToError)
-        res = unittest.main(module = None, testRunner = tr, exit = False,
-                            argv=[sys.argv[0], path] + sys.argv[1:])
+        res = unittest.main(test_module, testRunner = tr, exit = False)
         failed = {}
         for (test, _message) in res.result.errors + res.result.failures:
             if hasattr(test, "log_filename") and not test.id() in failed:
-- 
2.51.0

On 16/12/2025 21.05, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> The functional tests currently don't allow a single test to be
> selected for execution by dotted name, e.g:
> 
> ../tests/functional/ppc64/test_pseries.py PseriesMachine.test_ppc64_linux_boot
>                                            ^
> The issue is that the testcase.py main function passes the test
> module's name as the second argument to unittest.main(), which makes
> it ignore all other positional arguments (presumably because the
> module is already the superset of all tests).
> 
> After commit cac08383f0 ("tests/functional: expose sys.argv to
> unittest.main"), the situation improves by passing the rest of the
> argv from the command line invocation into unittest.main(), but it
> still doesn't fix the issue. The short form options are now accepted,
> so the -k option could be used to filter for a pattern, which is
> useful, but not the same as listing the test names.
> 
> Fix this by passing the test module name via the "module" argument to
> unittest.main() and stop touching argv. The ways of invoking tests are
> now as per unittests documentation (-k still works):
> 
>    Examples:
>      test_pseries.py                           - run default set of tests
>      test_pseries.py MyTestSuite               - run suite 'MyTestSuite'
>      test_pseries.py MyTestCase.testSomething  - run MyTestCase.testSomething
>      test_pseries.py MyTestCase                - run all 'test*' test methods in MyTestCase
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

If you've got some spare time, maybe you could also add some words about 
running individual sub-tests to docs/devel/testing/functional.rst ?

  Thomas

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 16/12/2025 21.05, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>> The functional tests currently don't allow a single test to be
>> selected for execution by dotted name, e.g:
>> 
>> ../tests/functional/ppc64/test_pseries.py PseriesMachine.test_ppc64_linux_boot
>>                                            ^
>> The issue is that the testcase.py main function passes the test
>> module's name as the second argument to unittest.main(), which makes
>> it ignore all other positional arguments (presumably because the
>> module is already the superset of all tests).
>> 
>> After commit cac08383f0 ("tests/functional: expose sys.argv to
>> unittest.main"), the situation improves by passing the rest of the
>> argv from the command line invocation into unittest.main(), but it
>> still doesn't fix the issue. The short form options are now accepted,
>> so the -k option could be used to filter for a pattern, which is
>> useful, but not the same as listing the test names.
>> 
>> Fix this by passing the test module name via the "module" argument to
>> unittest.main() and stop touching argv. The ways of invoking tests are
>> now as per unittests documentation (-k still works):
>> 
>>    Examples:
>>      test_pseries.py                           - run default set of tests
>>      test_pseries.py MyTestSuite               - run suite 'MyTestSuite'
>>      test_pseries.py MyTestCase.testSomething  - run MyTestCase.testSomething
>>      test_pseries.py MyTestCase                - run all 'test*' test methods in MyTestCase
> Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> If you've got some spare time, maybe you could also add some words about 
> running individual sub-tests to docs/devel/testing/functional.rst ?
>

Ah, thanks for the reminder, I'll do it right away.