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Testing Break-on-Failure Configuration Management in Telegram

This test suite validates Google Test’s break-on-failure functionality, ensuring proper handling of assertion failures in different execution modes. It verifies the behavior of environment variables and command line flags that control how test failures are processed.

Test Coverage Overview

The test suite provides comprehensive coverage of break-on-failure behavior in Google Test:

  • Default execution mode verification
  • Environment variable GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE control
  • Command line flag –gtest_break_on_failure handling
  • Interaction between environment variables and flags
  • Override behavior with throw-on-failure mode

Implementation Analysis

The implementation uses a systematic approach to test different configurations:

Tests run a Google-Test-based program with various combinations of environment variables and command line flags, verifying the expected segmentation fault behavior. The testing pattern includes environment variable control, flag precedence checking, and cross-feature interaction validation.

Technical Details

Key technical components include:

  • Python test runner infrastructure
  • Environment variable manipulation utilities
  • Subprocess execution handling
  • Platform-specific behavior handling (Windows vs non-Windows)
  • Signal and exit code verification

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test suite exemplifies several testing best practices:

  • Isolation of test cases
  • Proper environment cleanup after tests
  • Comprehensive feature interaction testing
  • Clear test case documentation
  • Platform-specific test handling

drklo/telegram

TMessagesProj/jni/boringssl/third_party/googletest/test/googletest-break-on-failure-unittest.py

            
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"""Unit test for Google Test's break-on-failure mode.

A user can ask Google Test to seg-fault when an assertion fails, using
either the GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE environment variable or the
--gtest_break_on_failure flag.  This script tests such functionality
by invoking googletest-break-on-failure-unittest_ (a program written with
Google Test) with different environments and command line flags.
"""

import os
import gtest_test_utils

# Constants.

IS_WINDOWS = os.name == 'nt'

# The environment variable for enabling/disabling the break-on-failure mode.
BREAK_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR = 'GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE'

# The command line flag for enabling/disabling the break-on-failure mode.
BREAK_ON_FAILURE_FLAG = 'gtest_break_on_failure'

# The environment variable for enabling/disabling the throw-on-failure mode.
THROW_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR = 'GTEST_THROW_ON_FAILURE'

# The environment variable for enabling/disabling the catch-exceptions mode.
CATCH_EXCEPTIONS_ENV_VAR = 'GTEST_CATCH_EXCEPTIONS'

# Path to the googletest-break-on-failure-unittest_ program.
EXE_PATH = gtest_test_utils.GetTestExecutablePath(
    'googletest-break-on-failure-unittest_')


environ = gtest_test_utils.environ
SetEnvVar = gtest_test_utils.SetEnvVar

# Tests in this file run a Google-Test-based test program and expect it
# to terminate prematurely.  Therefore they are incompatible with
# the premature-exit-file protocol by design.  Unset the
# premature-exit filepath to prevent Google Test from creating
# the file.
SetEnvVar(gtest_test_utils.PREMATURE_EXIT_FILE_ENV_VAR, None)


def Run(command):
  """Runs a command; returns 1 if it was killed by a signal, or 0 otherwise."""

  p = gtest_test_utils.Subprocess(command, env=environ)
  if p.terminated_by_signal:
    return 1
  else:
    return 0


# The tests.


class GTestBreakOnFailureUnitTest(gtest_test_utils.TestCase):
  """Tests using the GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE environment variable or
  the --gtest_break_on_failure flag to turn assertion failures into
  segmentation faults.
  """

  def RunAndVerify(self, env_var_value, flag_value, expect_seg_fault):
    """Runs googletest-break-on-failure-unittest_ and verifies that it does
    (or does not) have a seg-fault.

    Args:
      env_var_value:    value of the GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE environment
                        variable; None if the variable should be unset.
      flag_value:       value of the --gtest_break_on_failure flag;
                        None if the flag should not be present.
      expect_seg_fault: 1 if the program is expected to generate a seg-fault;
                        0 otherwise.
    """

    SetEnvVar(BREAK_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR, env_var_value)

    if env_var_value is None:
      env_var_value_msg = ' is not set'
    else:
      env_var_value_msg = '=' + env_var_value

    if flag_value is None:
      flag = ''
    elif flag_value == '0':
      flag = '--%s=0' % BREAK_ON_FAILURE_FLAG
    else:
      flag = '--%s' % BREAK_ON_FAILURE_FLAG

    command = [EXE_PATH]
    if flag:
      command.append(flag)

    if expect_seg_fault:
      should_or_not = 'should'
    else:
      should_or_not = 'should not'

    has_seg_fault = Run(command)

    SetEnvVar(BREAK_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR, None)

    msg = ('when %s%s, an assertion failure in "%s" %s cause a seg-fault.' %
           (BREAK_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR, env_var_value_msg, ' '.join(command),
            should_or_not))
    self.assert_(has_seg_fault == expect_seg_fault, msg)

  def testDefaultBehavior(self):
    """Tests the behavior of the default mode."""

    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value=None,
                      flag_value=None,
                      expect_seg_fault=0)

  def testEnvVar(self):
    """Tests using the GTEST_BREAK_ON_FAILURE environment variable."""

    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='0',
                      flag_value=None,
                      expect_seg_fault=0)
    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='1',
                      flag_value=None,
                      expect_seg_fault=1)

  def testFlag(self):
    """Tests using the --gtest_break_on_failure flag."""

    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value=None,
                      flag_value='0',
                      expect_seg_fault=0)
    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value=None,
                      flag_value='1',
                      expect_seg_fault=1)

  def testFlagOverridesEnvVar(self):
    """Tests that the flag overrides the environment variable."""

    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='0',
                      flag_value='0',
                      expect_seg_fault=0)
    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='0',
                      flag_value='1',
                      expect_seg_fault=1)
    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='1',
                      flag_value='0',
                      expect_seg_fault=0)
    self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='1',
                      flag_value='1',
                      expect_seg_fault=1)

  def testBreakOnFailureOverridesThrowOnFailure(self):
    """Tests that gtest_break_on_failure overrides gtest_throw_on_failure."""

    SetEnvVar(THROW_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR, '1')
    try:
      self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value=None,
                        flag_value='1',
                        expect_seg_fault=1)
    finally:
      SetEnvVar(THROW_ON_FAILURE_ENV_VAR, None)

  if IS_WINDOWS:
    def testCatchExceptionsDoesNotInterfere(self):
      """Tests that gtest_catch_exceptions doesn't interfere."""

      SetEnvVar(CATCH_EXCEPTIONS_ENV_VAR, '1')
      try:
        self.RunAndVerify(env_var_value='1',
                          flag_value='1',
                          expect_seg_fault=1)
      finally:
        SetEnvVar(CATCH_EXCEPTIONS_ENV_VAR, None)


if __name__ == '__main__':
  gtest_test_utils.Main()