The recent change to support importing ktesting into an E2E suite
without progress reporting was flawed:
- If a Go unit test had a deadline (the default when invoked
by `go test`!), the early return skipped initializing progress
reporting.
- When it didn't, for example when invoking a test binary directly
under stress, a test created goroutines which were kept running,
which broke leak checking in e.g. an integration tests TestMain.
The revised approach uses reference counting: as long as some unit test is
running, the progress reporting with the required goroutines are active.
When the last one ends, they get cleaned up, which keeps the goleak
checker happy.
This has been replaced by `//build:...` for a long time now.
Removal of the old build tag was automated with:
for i in $(git grep -l '^// +build' | grep -v -e '^vendor/'); do if ! grep -q '^// Code generated' "$i"; then sed -i -e '/^\/\/ +build/d' "$i"; fi; done
The new TContext interface combines a normal context and the testing interface,
then adds some helper methods. The context gets canceled when the test is done,
but that can also be requested earlier via Cancel.
The intended usage is to pass a single `tCtx ktesting.TContext` parameter
around in all helper functions that get called by a unit or integration test.
Logging is also more useful: Log[f] and Fatal[f] output is prefixed with
"[FATAL] ERROR: " to make it stand out more from regular log output.
If this approach turns out to be useful, it could be extended further (for
example, with a per-test timeout) and might get moved to a staging repository
to enable usage of it in other staging repositories.
To allow other implementations besides testing.T and testing.B, a custom
ktesting.TB interface gets defined with the methods expected from the
actual implementation. One such implementation can be ginkgo.GinkgoT().
