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

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

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.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs