README:

This directory contains a test suite for mysql daemon. To run

the currently existing test cases, simply execute ./mysql-test-run in

this directory. It will fire up the newly built mysqld and test it.

If you want to run a test with a running MySQL server use the --extern

option to mysql-test-run. Please note that in this mode the test suite

expects user to specify test names to run. Otherwise it falls back to the

normal "non-extern" behaviour. The reason is that some tests

could not run with external server. Here is the sample command

to test "alias" and "analyze" tests on external server:

mysql-test-run --extern alias analyze

To match your setup you might also need to provide --socket, --user and

other relevant options.

Note that you do not have to have to do make install, and you could

actually have a co-existing MySQL installation - the tests will not

conflict with it.

All tests must pass. If one or more of them fail on your system, please

read the following manual section of how to report the problem:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_test_suite.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-test-suite.html

You can create your own test cases. To create a test case:

 cd t

 vi test_case_name.test

 xemacs t/test_case_name.test

 in the file, put a set of SQL commands that will create some tables,

 load test data, run some queries to manipulate it.