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    <h2><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Test+Hierarchy">Test Hierarchy</a></h2>
    <h4>Page  <b>added</b> by             <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/~mjordan">Matt Jordan</a>
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         <p>Tests are 'discovered' by the <em>runtests.py</em> script during run time of the Asterisk Test Suite.  The <em>runtests.py</em> script discovers tests by parsing <em>tests.yaml</em> files.  The first <em>tests.yaml</em> file searched is always <em>tests/tests.yaml</em>.</p>

<p>A <em>tests.yaml</em> file always contains the the keyword <b>tests</b>, which contains a sequence of either directories to search for more tests in, or test directories to execute.</p>

<h2><a name="TestHierarchy-Specification"></a>Specification</h2>

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<td class='confluenceTd'> tests </td>
<td class='confluenceTd'> A sequence of 'test' or 'dir' key/value pairs </td>
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<td class='confluenceTd'> test </td>
<td class='confluenceTd'> Child of 'tests'.  Specifies a test directory to execute </td>
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<td class='confluenceTd'> dir </td>
<td class='confluenceTd'> Child of 'tests'.  Specifies a directory to search for more tests </td>
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<h2><a name="TestHierarchy-Example"></a>Example</h2>

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<pre class="theme: Confluence; brush: java; gutter: false">tests:
    - test: 'example'
    - test: 'dynamic-modules'
    - dir: 'manager'
    - test: 'rfc2833_dtmf_detect'
    - dir: 'iax2'
    - dir: 'cdr'</pre>
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