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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2025-03-18 10:20:21 +0100
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docs/devel/testing/functional: Add a section about logging
We should tell the users where to find the log file.
While we're at it, also rename the "Overview" heading to a
more accurate "Introduction to writing tests" instead.

Reported-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <20250318092021.53719-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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-Overview
---------
+Logging
+-------
+
+The framework collects log files for each test in the build directory
+in the following subfolder::
+
+ <builddir>/tests/functional/<arch>/<fileid>.<classid>.<testname>/
+
+There are usually three log files:
+
+* ``base.log`` contains the generic logging information that is written
+  by the calls to the logging functions in the test code (e.g. by calling
+  the ``self.log.info()`` or ``self.log.debug()`` functions).
+* ``console.log`` contains the output of the serial console of the guest.
+* ``default.log`` contains the output of QEMU. This file could be named
+  differently if the test chooses to use a different identifier for
+  the guest VM (e.g. when the test spins up multiple VMs).
+
+Introduction to writing tests
+-----------------------------
 
 The ``tests/functional/qemu_test`` directory provides the ``qemu_test``
 Python module, containing the ``qemu_test.QemuSystemTest`` class.