27.1.2.1. Running the MySQL Test Suite
The test system consists of a test language interpreter
(mysqltest), a shell script to run all
tests (mysql-test-run), the actual test
cases written in a special test language, and their expected
results. To run the test suite on your system after a build,
type make test or
mysql-test/mysql-test-run from the source
root directory. If you have installed a binary distribution,
change location to the installation root directory (for
example, /usr/local/mysql), and run
scripts/mysql-test-run. All tests should
succeed. If any do not, you should try to find out why and
report the problem if this is a bug in MySQL. See
Section 27.1.2.3, “How to Report Bugs in the MySQL Test Suite”.
If you have a copy of mysqld running on the
machine where you want to run the test suite, you do not have
to stop it, as long as it is not using ports
9306 or 9307. If either
of those ports is taken, you should edit
mysql-test-run and change the values of the
master or slave port to one that is available.
You can run one individual test case with
mysql-test/mysql-test-run test_name.
If one test fails, you should run
mysql-test-run with the
--force option to check whether any other
tests fail.
