Extending canary

Most operations in canary are implemented as pluggy hooks. Extending canary typically means writing a plugin that implements one or more hooks.

Examples of plugin-provided behavior include:

• test sources and test generation (e.g., .pyt, .vvt, CTest);

• launching and execution backends;

• reporting and result post-processing;

• batched execution via external systems (e.g., canary_hpc).

In this tutorial section we focus on adding support for a new test input format by implementing a job generator hook.

• Job generators
• Worked example: a YAML jobspec generator