cmd/go: fail if a test binary exits with no output

For example, if a test calls os.Exit(0), that could trick a 'go test'
run into not running some of the other tests, and thinking that they all
succeeded. This can easily go unnoticed and cause developers headaches.

Add a simple sanity check as part of 'go test': if the test binary
succeeds and doesn't print anything, we should error, as something
clearly went very wrong.

This is done by inspecting each of the stdout writes from the spawned
process, since we don't want to read the entirety of the output into a
buffer. We need to introduce a "buffered" bool var, as there's now an
io.Writer layer between cmd.Stdout and &buf.

A few TestMain funcs in the standard library needed fixing, as they
returned without printing anything as a means to skip testing the entire
package. For that purpose add testenv.MainMust, which prints a warning
and prints SKIP, similar to when -run matches no tests.

Finally, add tests for both os.Exit(0) and os.Exit(1), both as part of
TestMain and as part of a single test, and test that the various stdout
modes still do the right thing.

Fixes #29062.

Change-Id: Ic6f8ef3387dfc64e4cd3e8f903d7ca5f5f38d397
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/184457
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <[email protected]>

src/cmd/go/internal/test/test.go

@@ -1048,6 +1048,18 @@ func (lockedStdout) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
 	return os.Stdout.Write(b)
 }
 
+type outputChecker struct {
+	w         io.Writer
+	anyOutput bool
+}
+
+func (o *outputChecker) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	if !o.anyOutput && len(bytes.TrimSpace(p)) > 0 {
+		o.anyOutput = true
+	}
+	return o.w.Write(p)
+}
+
 // builderRunTest is the action for running a test binary.
 func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 	if a.Failed {
@@ -1067,6 +1079,7 @@ func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 	}
 
 	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	buffered := false
 	if len(pkgArgs) == 0 || testBench {
 		// Stream test output (no buffering) when no package has
 		// been given on the command line (implicit current directory)
@@ -1093,9 +1106,16 @@ func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 			stdout = io.MultiWriter(stdout, &buf)
 		} else {
 			stdout = &buf
+			buffered = true
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Keep track of whether we've seen any output at all. This is useful
+	// later, to avoid succeeding if the test binary did nothing or didn't
+	// reach the end of testing.M.Run.
+	outCheck := outputChecker{w: stdout}
+	stdout = &outCheck
+
 	if c.buf == nil {
 		// We did not find a cached result using the link step action ID,
 		// so we ran the link step. Try again now with the link output
@@ -1109,7 +1129,7 @@ func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 		c.tryCacheWithID(b, a, a.Deps[0].BuildContentID())
 	}
 	if c.buf != nil {
-		if stdout != &buf {
+		if !buffered {
 			stdout.Write(c.buf.Bytes())
 			c.buf.Reset()
 		}
@@ -1207,6 +1227,19 @@ func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 
 	mergeCoverProfile(cmd.Stdout, a.Objdir+"_cover_.out")
 
+	if err == nil && !testList && !outCheck.anyOutput {
+		// If a test does os.Exit(0) by accident, 'go test' may succeed
+		// and it can take a while for a human to notice the package's
+		// tests didn't actually pass.
+		//
+		// If a test binary ran without error, it should have at least
+		// printed something, such as a PASS line.
+		//
+		// The only exceptions are when no tests have run, and the
+		// -test.list flag, which just prints the names of tests
+		// matching a pattern.
+		err = fmt.Errorf("test binary succeeded but did not print anything")
+	}
 	if err == nil {
 		norun := ""
 		if !testShowPass && !testJSON {
@@ -1227,7 +1260,7 @@ func (c *runCache) builderRunTest(b *work.Builder, a *work.Action) error {
 		fmt.Fprintf(cmd.Stdout, "FAIL\t%s\t%s\n", a.Package.ImportPath, t)
 	}
 
-	if cmd.Stdout != &buf {
+	if !buffered {
 		buf.Reset() // cmd.Stdout was going to os.Stdout already
 	}
 	return nil

src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_exit.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+env GO111MODULE=on
+
+# If a test exits with a zero status code, 'go test' prints its own error
+# message and fails.
+! go test ./zero
+! stdout ^ok
+! stdout 'exit status'
+stdout 'did not print anything'
+stdout ^FAIL
+
+# If a test exits with a non-zero status code, 'go test' fails normally.
+! go test ./one
+! stdout ^ok
+stdout 'exit status'
+! stdout 'did not print anything'
+stdout ^FAIL
+
+# Ensure that other flags still do the right thing.
+go test -list=. ./zero
+stdout ExitZero
+
+! go test -bench=. ./zero
+stdout 'did not print anything'
+
+# 'go test' with no args streams output without buffering. Ensure that it still
+# catches a zero exit with missing output.
+cd zero
+! go test
+stdout 'did not print anything'
+cd ../normal
+go test
+stdout ^ok
+cd ..
+
+# If a TestMain prints something and exits with a zero status code, 'go test'
+# shouldn't complain about that. It's a common way to skip testing a package
+# entirely.
+go test ./main_zero_warning
+! stdout 'skipping all tests'
+stdout ^ok
+
+# With -v, we'll see the warning from TestMain.
+go test -v ./main_zero_warning
+stdout 'skipping all tests'
+stdout ^ok
+
+# Listing all tests won't actually give a result if TestMain exits. That's okay,
+# because this is how TestMain works. If we decide to support -list even when
+# TestMain is used to skip entire packages, we can change this test case.
+go test -list=. ./main_zero_warning
+stdout 'skipping all tests'
+! stdout TestNotListed
+
+# If a TestMain prints nothing and exits with a zero status code, 'go test'
+# should fail.
+! go test ./main_zero_nowarning
+stdout 'did not print anything'
+
+# A test that simply prints "PASS" and exits with a zero status code shouldn't
+# be OK, but we don't catch that at the moment. It's hard to tell if any test
+# started but didn't finish without using -test.v.
+go test ./fake_pass
+stdout ^ok
+
+-- go.mod --
+module m
+
+-- ./normal/normal.go --
+package normal
+-- ./normal/normal_test.go --
+package normal
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestExitZero(t *testing.T) {
+}
+
+-- ./zero/zero.go --
+package zero
+-- ./zero/zero_test.go --
+package zero
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestExitZero(t *testing.T) {
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
+-- ./one/one.go --
+package one
+-- ./one/one_test.go --
+package one
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestExitOne(t *testing.T) {
+	os.Exit(1)
+}
+
+-- ./main_zero_warning/zero.go --
+package zero
+-- ./main_zero_warning/zero_test.go --
+package zero
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
+	fmt.Println("skipping all tests")
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
+func TestNotListed(t *testing.T) {}
+
+-- ./main_zero_nowarning/zero.go --
+package zero
+-- ./main_zero_nowarning/zero_test.go --
+package zero
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
+	os.Exit(0)
+}
+
+-- ./fake_pass/fake.go --
+package fake
+-- ./fake_pass/fake_test.go --
+package fake
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestFakePass(t *testing.T) {
+	fmt.Println("PASS")
+	os.Exit(0)
+}

src/cmd/internal/goobj/goobj_test.go

@@ -29,9 +29,7 @@ var (
 )
 
 func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	if !testenv.HasGoBuild() {
-		return
-	}
+	testenv.MainMust(testenv.HasGoBuild)
 
 	if err := buildGoobj(); err != nil {
 		fmt.Println(err)

src/cmd/nm/nm_test.go

@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 }
 
 func testMain(m *testing.M) int {
-	if !testenv.HasGoBuild() {
-		return 0
-	}
+	testenv.MainMust(testenv.HasGoBuild)
 
 	tmpDir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "TestNM")
 	if err != nil {

src/cmd/objdump/objdump_test.go

@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ import (
 var tmp, exe string // populated by buildObjdump
 
 func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	if !testenv.HasGoBuild() {
-		return
-	}
+	testenv.MainMust(testenv.HasGoBuild)
 
 	var exitcode int
 	if err := buildObjdump(); err == nil {

src/go/build/deps_test.go

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ var pkgDeps = map[string][]string{
 	"testing":               {"L2", "flag", "fmt", "internal/race", "os", "runtime/debug", "runtime/pprof", "runtime/trace", "time"},
 	"testing/iotest":        {"L2", "log"},
 	"testing/quick":         {"L2", "flag", "fmt", "reflect", "time"},
-	"internal/testenv":      {"L2", "OS", "flag", "testing", "syscall", "internal/cfg"},
+	"internal/testenv":      {"L2", "OS", "flag", "fmt", "testing", "syscall", "internal/cfg"},
 	"internal/lazyregexp":   {"L2", "OS", "regexp"},
 	"internal/lazytemplate": {"L2", "OS", "text/template"},
 

src/internal/testenv/testenv.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ package testenv
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
+	"fmt"
 	"internal/cfg"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
@@ -32,6 +33,14 @@ func Builder() string {
 	return os.Getenv("GO_BUILDER_NAME")
 }
 
+func MainMust(cond func() bool) {
+	if !cond() {
+		fmt.Println("testenv: warning: can't run any tests")
+		fmt.Println("SKIP")
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+}
+
 // HasGoBuild reports whether the current system can build programs with ``go build''
 // and then run them with os.StartProcess or exec.Command.
 func HasGoBuild() bool {