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NAME

       lit - LLVM Integrated Tester

SYNOPSIS

       lit [options] [tests]

DESCRIPTION

       lit  is  a portable tool for executing LLVM and Clang style test suites, summarizing their
       results, and providing indication of failures.   lit  is  designed  to  be  a  lightweight
       testing tool with as simple a user interface as possible.

       lit  should be run with one or more tests to run specified on the command line.  Tests can
       be either individual test files or directories to search for tests (see TEST DISCOVERY).

       Each specified test will be executed (potentially in parallel) and  once  all  tests  have
       been  run lit will print summary information on the number of tests which passed or failed
       (see TEST STATUS RESULTS).  The lit program will execute with a non-zero exit code if  any
       tests fail.

       By  default  lit  will  use  a  succinct  progress  display  and  will  only print summary
       information for test failures.   See  OUTPUT  OPTIONS  for  options  controlling  the  lit
       progress display and output.

       lit  also  includes  a  number of options for controlling how tests are executed (specific
       features may depend on the particular  test  format).   See  EXECUTION  OPTIONS  for  more
       information.

       Finally,  lit  also  supports  additional options for only running a subset of the options
       specified on the command line, see SELECTION OPTIONS for more information.

       Users interested in the lit architecture or designing a lit testing implementation  should
       see LIT INFRASTRUCTURE.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show the lit help message.

       -j N, --threads=N
              Run  N  tests  in  parallel.  By default, this is automatically chosen to match the
              number of detected available CPUs.

       --config-prefix=NAME
              Search for NAME.cfg and NAME.site.cfg when searching for test  suites,  instead  of
              lit.cfg and lit.site.cfg.

       --param NAME, --param NAME=VALUE
              Add  a user defined parameter NAME with the given VALUE (or the empty string if not
              given).  The meaning and use of these parameters is test suite dependent.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
              Suppress any output except for test failures.

       -s, --succinct
              Show less output, for example don't show information on tests that pass.

       -v, --verbose
              Show more information on test failures, for example the entire test output  instead
              of just the test result.

       --no-progress-bar
              Do not use curses based progress bar.

EXECUTION OPTIONS

       --path=PATH
              Specify an additional PATH to use when searching for executables in tests.

       --vg   Run   individual   tests   under   valgrind   (using   the   memcheck  tool).   The
              --error-exitcode argument for valgrind is used so that valgrind failures will cause
              the program to exit with a non-zero status.

              When  this  option  is  enabled,  lit  will also automatically provide a "valgrind"
              feature that can be used to conditionally disable (or expect  failure  in)  certain
              tests.

       --vg-arg=ARG
              When --vg is used, specify an additional argument to pass to valgrind itself.

       --vg-leak
              When  --vg  is  used,  enable memory leak checks.  When this option is enabled, lit
              will  also  automatically  provide  a  "vg_leak"  feature  that  can  be  used   to
              conditionally disable (or expect failure in) certain tests.

       --time-tests
              Track  the  wall  time individual tests take to execute and includes the results in
              the summary output.  This is useful for determining which tests  in  a  test  suite
              take the most time to execute.  Note that this option is most useful with -j 1.

SELECTION OPTIONS

       --max-tests=N
              Run at most N tests and then terminate.

       --max-time=N
              Spend at most N seconds (approximately) running tests and then terminate.

       --shuffle
              Run the tests in a random order.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

       --debug
              Run lit in debug mode, for debugging configuration issues and lit itself.

       --show-suites
              List the discovered test suites as part of the standard output.

       --repeat=N
              Run  each test N times.  Currently this is primarily useful for timing tests, other
              results are not collated in any reasonable fashion.

EXIT STATUS

       lit will exit with an exit code of 1 if there are any FAIL or XPASS  results.   Otherwise,
       it  will  exit with the status 0.  Other exit codes are used for non-test related failures
       (for example a user error or an internal program error).

TEST DISCOVERY

       The inputs passed to lit  can  be  either  individual  tests,  or  entire  directories  or
       hierarchies  of  tests to run.  When lit starts up, the first thing it does is convert the
       inputs into a complete list of tests to run as part of test discovery.

       In the lit model, every test must exist inside some test suite.  lit resolves  the  inputs
       specified  on  the  command  line  to test suites by searching upwards from the input path
       until it finds a lit.cfg or lit.site.cfg file.  These files serve as both a marker of test
       suites  and  as configuration files which lit loads in order to understand how to find and
       run the tests inside the test suite.

       Once lit has mapped the inputs into test suites it traverses the  list  of  inputs  adding
       tests for individual files and recursively searching for tests in directories.

       This  behavior makes it easy to specify a subset of tests to run, while still allowing the
       test suite configuration to control exactly how tests are interpreted.  In  addition,  lit
       always  identifies tests by the test suite they are in, and their relative path inside the
       test suite.  For appropriately configured projects, this allows lit to provide  convenient
       and flexible support for out-of-tree builds.

TEST STATUS RESULTS

       Each test ultimately produces one of the following six results:

       PASS
          The test succeeded.

       XFAIL
          The  test  failed,  but  that  is  expected.  This is used for test formats which allow
          specifying that a test does not currently work, but wish to leave it in the test suite.

       XPASS
          The test succeeded, but it was expected to fail.  This is used  for  tests  which  were
          specified  as  expected  to fail, but are now succeeding (generally because the feature
          they test was broken and has been fixed).

       FAIL
          The test failed.

       UNRESOLVED
          The test result could not be determined.  For example, this occurs when the test  could
          not be run, the test itself is invalid, or the test was interrupted.

       UNSUPPORTED
          The  test is not supported in this environment.  This is used by test formats which can
          report unsupported tests.

       Depending on the test format tests may produce additional information about  their  status
       (generally only for failures).  See the OUTPUT OPTIONS section for more information.

LIT INFRASTRUCTURE

       This section describes the lit testing architecture for users interested in creating a new
       lit testing implementation, or extending an existing one.

       lit proper is primarily an infrastructure for discovering and running arbitrary tests, and
       to expose a single convenient interface to these tests. lit itself doesn't know how to run
       tests, rather this logic is defined by test suites.

   TEST SUITES
       As described in TEST DISCOVERY, tests are always located inside a test suite.  Test suites
       serve  to  define the format of the tests they contain, the logic for finding those tests,
       and any additional information to run the tests.

       lit identifies test suites as directories containing lit.cfg or  lit.site.cfg  files  (see
       also  --config-prefix).   Test suites are initially discovered by recursively searching up
       the directory hierarchy for all the input files passed on the command line.  You  can  use
       --show-suites to display the discovered test suites at startup.

       Once  a  test suite is discovered, its config file is loaded.  Config files themselves are
       Python modules which will be executed.  When the config file is  executed,  two  important
       global variables are predefined:

       lit
          The  global  lit configuration object (a LitConfig instance), which defines the builtin
          test  formats,  global  configuration  parameters,  and  other  helper   routines   for
          implementing test configurations.

       config
          This  is  the  config  object  (a TestingConfig instance) for the test suite, which the
          config file is expected to populate.  The following variables are also available on the
          config  object,  some  of  which  must  be set by the config and others are optional or
          predefined:

          name [required] The name of the test suite, for use in reports and diagnostics.

          test_format [required] The test format object which will be used to  discover  and  run
          tests  in  the test suite.  Generally this will be a builtin test format available from
          the lit.formats module.

          test_src_root The filesystem path to the test suite root.  For out-of-dir  builds  this
          is the directory that will be scanned for tests.

          test_exec_root For out-of-dir builds, the path to the test suite root inside the object
          directory.  This is where tests will be run and temporary output files placed.

          environment A dictionary representing the environment to use when  executing  tests  in
          the suite.

          suffixes For lit test formats which scan directories for tests, this variable is a list
          of suffixes to identify test files.  Used by: ShTest.

          substitutions For lit test formats which substitute variables into a test  script,  the
          list of substitutions to perform.  Used by: ShTest.

          unsupported  Mark  an  unsupported  directory,  all tests within it will be reported as
          unsupported.  Used by: ShTest.

          parent The parent configuration, this is the config object for the directory containing
          the test suite, or None.

          root The root configuration.  This is the top-most lit configuration in the project.

          on_clone  The  config is actually cloned for every subdirectory inside a test suite, to
          allow local configuration on a per-directory basis.  The on_clone variable can  be  set
          to  a  Python  function  which will be called whenever a configuration is cloned (for a
          subdirectory).   The  function  should  takes   three   arguments:   (1)   the   parent
          configuration,  (2)  the  new configuration (which the on_clone function will generally
          modify), and (3) the test path to the new directory being scanned.

   TEST DISCOVERY
       Once test suites are located, lit recursively traverses the  source  directory  (following
       test_src_root) looking for tests.  When lit enters a sub-directory, it first checks to see
       if a nested test suite is defined in that directory.  If so,  it  loads  that  test  suite
       recursively,  otherwise  it  instantiates a local test config for the directory (see LOCAL
       CONFIGURATION FILES).

       Tests are identified by the test suite they are contained within, and  the  relative  path
       inside  that  suite.  Note that the relative path may not refer to an actual file on disk;
       some test formats (such as GoogleTest) define "virtual  tests"  which  have  a  path  that
       contains both the path to the actual test file and a subpath to identify the virtual test.

   LOCAL CONFIGURATION FILES
       When  lit loads a subdirectory in a test suite, it instantiates a local test configuration
       by cloning the configuration for the parent direction --- the root of  this  configuration
       chain will always be a test suite.  Once the test configuration is cloned lit checks for a
       lit.local.cfg file in the subdirectory.  If present, this file will be loaded and  can  be
       used  to specialize the configuration for each individual directory.  This facility can be
       used to define  subdirectories  of  optional  tests,  or  to  change  other  configuration
       parameters --- for example, to change the test format, or the suffixes which identify test
       files.

   TEST RUN OUTPUT FORMAT
       The lit output for a test run conforms to the following schema, in both short and  verbose
       modes  (although  in short mode no PASS lines will be shown).  This schema has been chosen
       to be relatively easy to reliably  parse  by  a  machine  (for  example  in  buildbot  log
       scraping), and for other tools to generate.

       Each test result is expected to appear on a line that matches:

          <result code>: <test name> (<progress info>)

       where  <result-code>  is  a  standard  test  result  such  as  PASS,  FAIL,  XFAIL, XPASS,
       UNRESOLVED, or UNSUPPORTED.  The performance result codes of IMPROVED  and  REGRESSED  are
       also allowed.

       The <test name> field can consist of an arbitrary string containing no newline.

       The  <progress  info>  field can be used to report progress information such as (1/300) or
       can be empty, but even when empty the parentheses are required.

       Each test result may include additional  (multiline)  log  information  in  the  following
       format:

          <log delineator> TEST '(<test name>)' <trailing delineator>
          ... log message ...
          <log delineator>

       where  <test  name> should be the name of a preceding reported test, <log delineator> is a
       string of "*" characters at least four characters long (the recommended length is 20), and
       <trailing delineator> is an arbitrary (unparsed) string.

       The following is an example of a test run output which consists of four tests A, B, C, and
       D, and a log message for the failing test C:

          PASS: A (1 of 4)
          PASS: B (2 of 4)
          FAIL: C (3 of 4)
          ******************** TEST 'C' FAILED ********************
          Test 'C' failed as a result of exit code 1.
          ********************
          PASS: D (4 of 4)

   LIT EXAMPLE TESTS
       The lit distribution contains several  example  implementations  of  test  suites  in  the
       ExampleTests directory.

SEE ALSO

       valgrind(1)

AUTHOR

       Maintained by The LLVM Team (http://llvm.org/).

COPYRIGHT

       2003-2013, LLVM Project