When running TAT or make test, my prologue does not get executed. What is wrong here?

This problem typically occurs, when a previous test has been interrupted (killed), for example with CTRL-C.

A: TAT creates a file .testSession in the test directory of the module where the test is running.

After finishing the test, this file gets deleted again. When interrupting a test, this file obviously gets not deleted. The file often contains information like "Do not execute prologue" (since the prologue was already executed in the current session, or since a user specifies this behaviour with special TAT configuration commands).

Just delete the file .testSession and everything will be good again.

REMARK :

if the .testsession is there it is better to run first:

tat -v -nc cleanEnv

because like that the epilogue is executed, and the processes activated with the prologue will be closed/shutdown etc... without doing kill or things like that. In general, every tat test can be split in three operations:

• preparation phase (source of the source file, compile the software, run the prologue,...)

     tat -v -nc makeEnv 

• test phase

     tat -v -nc (in this case, the preparation phase is not repeated)

• clean-up phase (run the epilogue, clean-up the log directories, if any...)

     tat -v -nc cleanEnv