Bazel build rules for DejaGNU test suites.

DejaGNU is a framework for testing other programs. Based on Expect, it provides a mechanism for interacting with those other programs to test for positive and negative behaviours.

The full manual for DejaGNU is https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/index.html

This is a Bazel module (https://bazel.build) that provides a way to let Bazel execute DejaGNU test suites.

Full API documentation is available in docs/rules.md

NOTE: This module assumes the existence of the expect interpreter in the system path. It is future-work to offer a hermetic expect in the Bazel build environment.

Setup

Add the following to your MODULE.bazel:

bazel_dep(name = "rules_dejagnu", version = "0.0.1", dev_dependency = True)
git_override(
    module_name = "rules_dejagnu",
    commit = "8e57c675f9e3efa394588a87966b9e132216588c",
    remote = "https://github.com/jaqx0r/rules_dejagnu.git",
)

Examples

load("@rules_dejagnu//dejagnu:defs.bzl", "dejagnu_test")

dejagnu_test(name = "simple", srcs = ["simple.exp"])

Full API documentation is available in docs/rules.md. See testsuite/BUILD for working examples.

Debugging

bazel test --strategy=TestRunner=local //:simple_test will leave the test tree lying around for inspection.