simpletest-support

[Simpletest-support] Running individual test cases

[Ryan G. <rya...@gm...>]

On the Reporter documentation page (
http://simpletest.org/en/reporter_documentation.html), it says that there is
a way to create "more sophistcated GUI displays that allow the selection of
individual test cases".  I'm very much interested in this, but I'm not
entirely sure where to start.  I've looked over the API calls, the the
methods one can use to overload the HtmlReporter object, but it's not
obvious to me how I can go about running an individual test case by clicking
on a link.

I understand that I can use the makeDry() function to just display all the
tests without running them, and make each test linkable.  But what is the
next step?  How can I link to the test results such that only a single test
case is executed?

Thanks for the help!

Re: [Simpletest-support] Running individual test cases

[Marcus B. <ma...@wo...>]

Hi...

Ryan Gerard wrote:
> I understand that I can use the makeDry() function to just display all the
> tests without running them, and make each test linkable.  But what is the
> next step?  How can I link to the test results such that only a single test
> case is executed?

If you've understood makeDry(), then you are more than half way 
there. There are a bunch of decorators, mainly the SelectiveReporter 
(in reporter.php). If you wrap your pretty test display in that, it 
will take care of running only the tests and cases referred to in 
the constructor.

> 
> Thanks for the help!

No problem. Let me know how you get on and if you need any enhancements.

yours, Marcus