On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:59 PM SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:53 PM Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote: > > Can you say a word or two (here in the email thread) about how you're > > finding these failures (across the various test fixes you've posted > > recently)? Are you instrumenting the code in some fashion? Or, finding > > them by visual inspection? > > Errors from system commands in our tests look like these: > grep: file3: No such file or directory > i.e. lines starting with various system commands' or test scripts' > names, followed by ': '. > > So I've modified t/Makefile to not remove the 'test-results' directory > after a successful 'make test': > And then scanned the results of a '--verbose-log -x' test run with: > grep -E [...] > and then, for lack of something better to do ;), I started looking at > the simpler looking errors.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.
