Acceptance Tests: add basic documentation on LinuxTest base class

Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210412044644.55083-10-crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 1da4c4e4c4e61d7cec4681fb512ee5ed5781979a..4e42392810652d0cbe834db87aa5bef293163f0f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -810,6 +810,32 @@ and hypothetical example follows:
 At test "tear down", ``avocado_qemu.Test`` handles all the QEMUMachines
 shutdown.
 
+The ``avocado_qemu.LinuxTest`` base test class
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``avocado_qemu.LinuxTest`` is further specialization of the
+``avocado_qemu.Test`` class, so it contains all the characteristics of
+the later plus some extra features.
+
+First of all, this base class is intended for tests that need to
+interact with a fully booted and operational Linux guest.  At this
+time, it uses a Fedora 31 guest image.  The most basic example looks
+like this:
+
+.. code::
+
+  from avocado_qemu import LinuxTest
+
+
+  class SomeTest(LinuxTest):
+
+      def test(self):
+          self.launch_and_wait()
+          self.ssh_command('some_command_to_be_run_in_the_guest')
+
+Please refer to tests that use ``avocado_qemu.LinuxTest`` under
+``tests/acceptance`` for more examples.
+
 QEMUMachine
 ~~~~~~~~~~~