libevdev's internal test suite uses the Check unit testing framework.

Tests are divided into test suites and test cases. Most tests create a uinput device, so you'll need to run as root.

To run a specific suite only:

export CK_RUN_SUITE="suite name"

To run a specific test case only:

export CK_RUN_TEST="test case name"

To get a list of all suites or tests:

git grep "suite_create"
git grep "tcase_create"

By default, Check forks, making debugging harder. The test suite tries to detect if it is running inside gdb and disable forking. If that doesn't work for some reason, run gdb as below to avoid forking.

sudo CK_FORK=no CK_RUN_TEST="test case name" gdb ./test/test-libevdev

A special target make gcov-report.txt exists that runs gcov and leaves a libevdev.c.gcov file. Check that for test coverage.

make check is hooked up to run the test and gcov (again, needs root).

The test suite creates a lot of devices, very quickly. Add the following xorg.conf.d snippet to avoid the devices being added as X devices (at the time of writing, mutter can't handle these devices and exits after getting a BadDevice error).

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-ignore-libevdev-devices.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Ignore libevdev test devices"
        MatchProduct "libevdev test device"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection