Re: [PATCH] check: annotate good and expunged tests in results

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On 2/12/19 12:04 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:44 AM Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/1/18 9:34 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>> On 4/30/18 4:48 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>>> On 4/27/18 10:45 PM, Eryu Guan wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:00:09PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:23:56PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the test run & pass info is already available from the check output
>>>>>>> and the test result summary at the end of check. Is that sufficient for
>>>>>>> you? Also, we already have mechanism to generate a test report in xunit
>>>>>>> format, i.e. ./check -R xunit -g auto, which includes results for passed
>>>>>>> & failed & notrun tests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do we have a way to parse the results *after* a run? For instance,
>>>>>> if you forgot -R xunit ?
>>>>>
>>>>> There's a tools/compare-failures script that takes the outputs of check
>>>>> as inputs and compares the results. But, TBH, I never run it after
>>>>> reviewing it.. Perhaps it could be enhanced somehow.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that takes check output.  Without capturing it at runtime, it
>>>> can't compare anything.
>>>>
>>>> The XML report may do most of what I want provided we can enable it by
>>>> default and write it someplace safe rather than clean it up
>>>> automatically when the test run is interrupted.
>>>>
>>>> I already have test code that extends it to output expunged tests and to
>>>> add an explicit <pass/> element.  It saves the timestamps already, so
>>>> that's a plus.
>>>
>>> And shortly after writing this, I had a test run hang.  Since it hung,
>>> even writing it on exit wouldn't have worked.  There's not enough
>>> information leftover to generate it.  I think I'd still like the results
>>> directory to contain the information required to generate it as a
>>> post-mortem.
>>
>> After thinking on it a bit more, since you object to writing a bunch of
>> files by default, we could accomplish the same goal by adding a "files"
>> report type that does this without dropping files for everyone.  I'm
>> working that up now.
> 
> How's that going BTW? :)

I've had it working for a while.  It's kind of messy at the moment and
drops files in the same output dir as the test results.  I'm reworking
it a bit to use a separate files directory under the report/section
directory so it's easier for scripts to work with.

-Jeff


-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs



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