Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes:
How would _you_ like to see piuparts report results, and produce other
output? Go wild, the sky is bright blue.
The obvious things to fix are:
- make it really easy to see what the result of each test is
Almost as obvious is to easily identify which test is being run.
I think a good way to show both of these would be to have a different
channel of output, beside the logging output, that shows explicitly a
test identifier at the start, and then the result of that test at the
end, with a visually similar presentation for both. “Test identifier”
can simply be a command line, for example::
N: Running command: ‘dpkg --info
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/burn_0.4.4-1_all.deb’
…
I: Command OK: ‘dpkg --info
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/burn_0.4.4-1_all.deb’
N: Running command: ‘chroot /tmp/tmpQm3zr8 dpkg -i
tmp/burn_0.4.4-1_all.deb’
…
E: Command FAILED: ‘chroot /tmp/tmpQm3zr8 dpkg -i
tmp/burn_0.4.4-1_all.deb’
What about emitting this as TAP, the Test Anything Protocol [1]?
The general format is
1..N
ok 1 Description # Directive
not ok 42 Description
# Diagnostic
It does not support severities, but these could be put in a Diagnostic line.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/TAP-1.00/TAP.pm
Regards,
Peter Pöschl
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