Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:16:21PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >FYI, I have applied the pending patch to branch-2-0, and the patch below > >to HEAD. It uses the new testsuite, and sure again feels a little like > >working around the limitations of Autotest. Suggestions for improvement > >welcome. We should also start to think about using the grouping > >feature more consistently in the long run. > > Please expand on what you think we need to do about autotest. What grouping > feature?
Well, you have AT_BANNER for headings, and AT_SETUP for groups of tests and AT_CHECK for one command to test. I meant grouping under AT_BANNER. But looking at how things are at the moment, maybe there is no need to change that. Other than that, maybe we can use AT_KEYWORDS to our advantage. Have not thought yet how. > I'd like, for example, to be able to give the user feedback for each > AT_CHECK, but that does not seem to be possible. Hmm, you have RUN_IF_FAIL and RUN_IF_PASS options. I don't know whether you are supposed to feedback on stdout or stderr, however. Regards, Ralf