Re: [Cppunit-devel] news features...

[Volker B. <vbo...@te...>]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:

> A basic XML output has been added (I haven't tested it against XML softwa=
re
> yet, but the unit test say it's ok. So if I didn't mess up with the forma=
t
> it should be ok).

great to hear there's progress on the output front. Some months ago (when
i didn't knew the new CppUnit) i started to add some convenient features
to the output but found it very difficult to change something. (And i
ended in rewriting a lot of TextTestRunner, TestResult and the Decorateur
completely...)

I wanted the following features:
 - for every test method the name of the test was printed to STDOUT
   either "passed", "failed" or "error".
 - after execution of every single Test: print the name of the test
   method and the execution time for the test to STDERR.
   (That way we could mis-use the Unittests for performance checks)
 - after each suite print either "--- suite: failed ---" or
   "--- suite: success ---" goes to STDOUT.
 - a more detailed summary of the suite is printed to STDERR.

That way it was easy to get both, a compact log e.g. for a daily build,
and a verbose log (first on STDOUT, the latter on STDERR).

Additionally every failure and error is printed in the same format that is
used by g++. When i run the compile like that

  make && ./MyClassTest

from my IDE (emacs) I can use the editor's parser to get to the=20
location of test-errors using 'next-error'.

And - an essential for batch processing - the TextTestRunner returned an
exit code that was translated in an exit code of the program signaling
error or success.

I hope it will be easier to implement such a thing after your changes.

> Somebody on the Unix side should check that everything build correctly. 1=
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> Unit tests should be running.

There is a problem with missing itoa() (not only) on Linux, gcc version
2.95.2. I have attached a fix.

Regards,
Volker
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