Config file for test execution parameters?

[elnuno]

Hello,

When the executing a test, are the inputs related to file saving given by a tester saved in a xml config file?
For example, if if I declare that I want my test results to be saved under the name my_test_results, is this accessible somewhere or is this pure runtime information used by phoronix-test-suite?

[Michael]

Hello,

When the executing a test, are the inputs related to file saving given by a tester saved in a xml config file?
For example, if if I declare that I want my test results to be saved under the name my_test_results, is this accessible somewhere or is this pure runtime information used by phoronix-test-suite?

Yes, ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml or if root /etc/phoronix-test-suite.xml

[elnuno]

root, I checked the xml file before and after and I didn't see any difference. Maybe my question was unclear, here is what I did and what I would like to retrieve

phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/systemd-boot-total
(...)
    Would you like to save these test results (Y/n): Y
    Enter a name to save these results under: my_test
    Enter a unique name to describe this test run / configuration: 
Systemd Total Boot Time:
    pts/systemd-boot-total-1.0.4 [Test: Total]
    Test 1 of 1
    Estimated Trial Run Count: 1
        Started Run 1 @ 00:14:51

    Test Results:
        24520

    Average: 24520 ms

    Do you want to view the text results of the testing (Y/n): n
    Would you like to upload the results to OpenBenchmarking.org (Y/n): n

I want to retrieve in a xml file a my_test tag. Or, let's do it the other way around, I'd like to pre-set the name of the result file in order to minimize user interactions and easily identify the xml result file for parsing. Is this possible?

[Michael]

You can do that via environment variables, check out the documentation and all of the env vars are documented.

[elnuno]

Thanks, I found the information related to TEST_RESULTS_NAME in the doc. Once again I'm impressed by your support Michael and by the tool.

[elnuno]

Hello,

I see that, if TEST_RESULTS_NAME is set, name is transformed (lower case, removal of "special" characters). For example, if I set TEST_RESULTS_NAME to TC_X_Y_Z, results will be stored in tcxyz/composite.xml.
Is there a way to prevent this?

Denis

[Michael]

Hello,

I see that, if TEST_RESULTS_NAME is set, name is transformed (lower case, removal of "special" characters). For example, if I set TEST_RESULTS_NAME to TC_X_Y_Z, results will be stored in tcxyz/composite.xml.
Is there a way to prevent this?

Denis

no there is not a way to prevent this, that is expected behavior.