This document describes the XML tags for writing a test suite.
Tag: Title
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TITLE
Required: Yes
Description: The full string title of the suite.
Tag: Version
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_VERSION
Required: Yes
Description: The version of the test suite.
Supported Values: ( Formatted: x.x.x )
Tag: Description
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_DESCRIPTION
Required: Recommended
Description: A short description of the test suite.
Tag: TestType
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TYPE
Required: Recommended
Description: The hardware area of the system that this suite is designed to stress.
Supported Values: System, Processor, Graphics, Disk, Memory, Motherboard
Tag: Maintainer
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_MAINTAINER
Required: Recommended
Description: The name of the maintainer of this suite.
Tag: PreRunMessage
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_PRERUNMSG
Required: No
Description: If the user needs to be alerted about something dealing with this
suite -- and just not to a specific test -- this tag can contain a string that will be shown to the user before the
tests in the suite are executed.
Tag: PostRunMessage
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_POSTRUNMSG
Required: No
Description: If the user needs to be alerted about something dealing with this
suite -- and just not to a specific test -- this tag can contain a string that will be shown to the user after the
tests in the suite are executed.
Tag: Test
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_NAME
Required: Yes
Description: The name (identifier) of the test to run.
Tag: Arguments
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_ARGUMENTS
Required: No
Description: Only the default arguments are extracted from the test profile. All
other arguments you wish to supply (as the end-user isn't prompted of any options
when running a suite) should be supplied as a value in this tag.
Tag: Description
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_DESCRIPTION
Required: No
Description: A short description describing this test and its options, which is
displayed on the graph in the PTS Results Viewer.