From: Gavin Sinclair Date: 2004-05-18T23:22:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Highlighting for unit testing output (console) On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 8:28:49 PM, denis wrote: > "Gavin Sinclair" wrote in message > news:<43526.129.78.64.101.1084831986.squirrel@webmail.imagineis.com>... >> I'll personally award three kudos points to anyone who implements a patch >> to apply some level of highlighting to the console output of a unit test. >> >> It should try to load the 'text/highlight' package available on the RAA >> (or some other package if appropriate) and continue gracefully without >> highlighting if that library is not available. >> >> Any takers? >> >> Gavin > I can have a look at it, it should be easy to do. What output do you > want to be highlighted, and in which colors ? In most cases, the stuff I really want to see stand out are error messages and the backtrace, so I can see where to go looking. If, in the backtrace, you can identify the line in the *unit test file* and highlight that especially, that would be fantastic. As for colour choice: I use a black background, and "bold" colours tend to display much better. So yellow, cyan, and green are probably the three to use. Cheers, Gavin