lint/test/linters/README.md

Test Cases

This directory contains test cases that super-linter uses to validate if a particular linter is working.

These test cases focus on how super-linter invokes each linter and their exit codes. We deliberately avoid to verify if the output of a given linter matches the expectations because it's the responsibility of each linter to do so.

Test case format

Each super-linter language should have its own directory, named after the language they refer to.

The name of each test case denotes its nature:

• Test cases that are expected to pass validation contain the good string in their file name, or path. Example: markdown_good_5.md
• Test cases that are expected to fail validation contain the bad string in their file name, or path. Example: markdown_bad_5.md

Notes about specific tests

In this section, we explain the peculiarities of certain test cases.

SQL Fluff test cases

From version 0.12.0 SQLFluff requires a dialect to be set, and no longer sets a default. This can be provided as a command line argument, or a .sqlfluff config file (either in the usualy place for SQLFluff config files, or within the folder containg the SQL).

For SQLFluff we have added a default .sqlfluff config file in its test directory.

OpenAPI test cases

The _bad_ tests are valid .yml/.json but invalid OpenAPI specs. The test extensions used are .ymlopenapi/.jsonopenapi instead of .yml/.json. This is to prevent the YAML and JSON tests from picking them up.

ARM test cases

apiVersions older than 2 years (730 days) are treated as errors by the ARM linter if there is a newer version available.

Ansible test cases

roles/ghe-initialize is a valid Ansible role