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authorEmanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>2021-08-09 11:01:02 +0200
committerHanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>2021-09-01 12:57:31 +0200
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docs/devel/testing: add debug section to the QEMU iotests chapter
Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation
to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-5-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
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@@ -224,6 +224,14 @@ another application on the host may have locked the file, possibly leading to a
 test failure.  If using such devices are explicitly desired, consider adding
 ``locking=off`` option to disable image locking.
 
+Debugging a test case
+-----------------------
+The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging
+a failing test:
+
+* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
+  for example the QMP commands and answers.
+
 Test case groups
 ----------------