[RFC] small updates to test running

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> Currently the selftest suite runs all of the adapted Transport tests
>> before running any other tests. This takes quite a while, and Transport
>> has been stable for a while. I think it would be nice if we ran them
>> after the testmod_names. Just trying to move failed tests earlier.
>>
>> Second, I think it would be nice if the non-verbose mode would print out
>> a single line for failed/error tests. It goes back to Aaron's earlier
>> complaint, that now you have to run the whole test suite before it
>> prints out anything about what has failed. I think doing something like:
>>
>> test.foo.bar.baz: FAIL
>> test.xxx.yy.zzz: ERROR
>> [========      ] 10/1000
>>
>> It would add 1 line for everything that fails, but it is nicer in a few
>> ways.
> 
> Both those sounds good to me.
> 
> I tend to run with --one if I expect anything will fail, just because of
> the volume of (largely unhelpful) error log we get at the moment.
> 
>> 1) You know that something is failing before the test finishes
>> 2) You can see what is actually failing and go work on that test while
>> waiting for the rest to finish.
>> 3) You can quickly spot fail/error tests, rather than grepping through
>> the output of --verbose
> 
> 

The attached bundle actually implements this, and it even updates the
selftest progress bar tests so that it checks for the appropriate note()
calls.

I don't think this is critical for 0.9, but it is probably nice to get
in. (And it is a relatively small change)

John
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