Display and allow chaninging a comment/description for aliases. Change the default comment for required aliases to "Required alias".

tests/lib/installed-state.sh

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ installed_state_capture() {
         echo "Unable to get aliases: rc=$? err=$REST_ERROR" 1>&2
         return 2
     fi
-    echo "$REST_OUTPUT" > "$state_dir/aliases.json"
+    # ignore/exclude the alias description field
+    echo "$REST_OUTPUT" | grep -v '"description":' > "$state_dir/aliases.json"
 
     # record dns config
     H2 "record dns details"
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ installed_state_compare() {
     H2 "Aliases"
     output="$(diff "$s1/aliases.json" "$s2/aliases.json" 2>&1)"
     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-        change="true"
+        changed="true"
         echo "ALIASES ARE DIFFERENT!"
         echo "$output"
     else

tests/suites/_init.sh

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ suite_start() {
 	let SUITE_COUNT_SKIPPED=0
 	let SUITE_COUNT_TOTAL=0
 	SUITE_NAME="$1"
+	SUITE_START=$(date +%s)
 	OUTDIR="$BASE_OUTPUTDIR/$SUITE_NAME"
 	mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
 	echo ""
@@ -50,7 +51,8 @@ suite_start() {
 
 suite_end() {
 	suite_cleanup "$@"
-	echo "Suite $SUITE_NAME finished"
+	local SUITE_END=$(date +%s)
+	echo "Suite $SUITE_NAME finished ($(elapsed_pretty $SUITE_START $SUITE_END))"
 	let OVERALL_SUCCESSES+=$SUITE_COUNT_SUCCESS
 	let OVERALL_FAILURES+=$SUITE_COUNT_FAILURE
 	let OVERALL_SKIPPED+=$SUITE_COUNT_SKIPPED