test-profiles | Git copy of the OpenBenchmarking.org test profiles

test-profiles is a Shell library. test-profiles has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However test-profiles has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

This Git repository serves as an auto-converted repository of all OpenBenchmarking.org test profiles used by the Phoronix Test Suite available in the form of a Git repository. OpenBenchmarking.org test profiles themselves are not stored in any Git repository but rather has relied upon its own custom version management system integrated into the Phoronix Test Suite. (This Git copy is auto-generated via phoronix-test-suite dump-tests-to-git.) This Git repository is here primarily for convenience. These test profiles are not usable without the Phoronix Test Suite or from its Git repository. Since Phoronix Test Suite 3.0, test profiles have been versioned separately from the Phoronix Test Suite and served by OpenBenchmarking.org when needed by the client, rather than being bundled with the phoronix-test-suite package itself. This allows for test profiles to be updated independent of the Phoronix Test Suite client, new tests to be added past a Phoronix Test Suite release, and other benefits. The Phoronix Test Suite checks for new test profiles/suites on a daily basis when run, though the meta-data cache can be updated manually if desired via phoronix-test-suite openbenchmarking-refresh. The phoronix-test-profile openbenchmarking-changes sub-command also provides users from the CLI a convenient look at recently updated tests. A test profile itself consists of a main XML file containing the test's meta-data (test-definition.xml), an XML file if needed to specify required files and its MD5/SHA256 hashes and file sizes (downloads.xml), and the install.sh script for installing the test and generating the run-script for execution by the Phoronix Test Suite at run-time. There are also other potential files like pre.sh, interim.sh, and post.sh for execution at pre-run, interim-run, and post-run stages by the Phoronix Test Suite. If you are looking to get involved with test profile development, the simplest way is by starting at looking at a basic test like c-ray, tesseract or others. Simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark tesseract and then look at the test profile's contents either via this Git repository or by the default locations in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles or /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/ if running as root. More documentation on test profile development will come in the future, but happy to answer any questions that may emerge and are not covered by documentation.