hint: when passing around test output, consider using subunit

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Jul 20 06:20:55 BST 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:19 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > I just thought I'd mention this. As you may or may not know, bzr has
> > subunit support.
> > 
> > When giving test logs to other devs, using subunit output is a great way
> > to make it easy to introspect the logs:
> > 
> > bzr selftest --subunit > tests.log
> > subunit-ls < tests.log
> > subunit-filter --no-skips < tests.log | subunit2pyunit
> > 
> > and more :)
> 
> Is this worth updating the testing section of the Developer Guide with this?

I'd suggest getting some feedback on it; I may be the only person doing
this :)

If people like it, then yes, definitely worth writing some text about
it.

-Rob
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