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# Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 Suite Specification

This document describes the XML tags for writing a test suite.

## PhoronixTestSuite/SuiteInformation/

Tag: Title
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/TestProfile/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TITLE
Required: Yes
Description: The full string title of the suite.

Tag: Version
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/TestProfile/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_VERSION
Required: Yes
Description: The version of the test suite.
Supported Values: ( Formatted: x.x.x )

Tag: Description
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/TestProfile/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_DESCRIPTION
Required: Recommended
Description: A short description of the test suite.

Tag: TestType
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/TestProfile/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TYPE
Required: Recommended
Description: The hardware area of the system that this suite is designed to stress.
Supported Values: System, Processor, Graphics, Disk, Memory, Motherboard

Tag: Maintainer
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/TestProfile/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_MAINTAINER
Required: Recommended
Description: The name of the maintainer of this suite.

## PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
NOTE: Multiple instances of these tags are allowed for multiple tests in a suite

Tag: Test
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_NAME
Required: Yes
Description: The name (identifier) of the test to run.

Tag: Arguments
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_ARGUMENTS
Required: No
Description: Only the default arguments are extracted from the test profile. All other arguments you wish to supply (as the end-user isn't prompted of any options when running a suite) should be supplied as a value in this tag.

Tag: Description
Location: PhoronixTestSuite/RunTest/
Internal Reference: P_SUITE_TEST_DESCRIPTION
Required: No
Description: A short description describing this test and its options, which is displayed on the graph in the PTS Results Viewer.

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