Re: [RFC 1/1] acceptance tests: rename acceptance to system

[Thomas Huth]

On 21/05/2021 16.29, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 15:19, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> > If you think these tests belong to tests/tcg/, I am OK to put
> > them they, but I don't think adding the Avocado buildsys
> > machinery to the already-complex tests/tcg/ Makefiles is going
> > to help us...
>
> This does raise the question of what we're actually trying
> to distinguish. It seems to me somewhat that what tests/acceptance/
> actually contains that makes it interestingly different from other
> tests/ stuff is that it's specifically "tests using the Avocado
> framework". On that theory we might name it tests/avocado/.

I think there are two aspects:

1) These tests are using the avocado framework

2) These tests are downloading other stuff from the internet (unlike the 
other tests that we have)

> Or we could just leave it as it is -- is the current naming
> actually confusing anybody? :-)

Yes, I think "acceptance" is rather confusing. So far they haven't been part 
of your PR acceptance tests (well, now they are part of the gitlab-CI, 
though), and it's also not about tests that have been set up by customers, 
which is what you normally think of when hearing "acceptance tests". So a 
different name would be adequate.

I think I'd vote for either "avocado", "avoqado" or "validation".

 Thomas