• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR

NAME

dh_auto_test - automatically runs a package's test suites

SYNOPSIS

dh_auto_test [debhelper options] [-- params]

DESCRIPTION

dh_auto_test is a debhelper program that tries to automatically run a package's test suite. If there's a Makefile and it contains a "test" or "check" target, then this is done by running make (or MAKE, if the environment variable is set). If the test suite fails, the command will exit nonzero. If there's no test suite, it will exit zero without doing anything.

This is intended to work for about 90% of packages with a test suite. If it doesn't work, you're encouraged to skip using dh_auto_test at all, and just run the test suite manually.

OPTIONS

-- params

Pass "params" to the program that is run. These can be used to suppliment or override the any standard parameters that dh_auto_test passes.

SEE ALSO

debhelper(7)

This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>