From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2004-08-11T23:35:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit output

On Aug 11, 2004, at 03:36, Charles Comstock wrote:

> I was curious if there are other test modes on test::unit which are 
> more descriptive of the progress through each file of testing.  I 
> think this would be particularly useful for running test cases like 
> those in the ruby interpreter.  If the interpreter segfaults in the 
> middle of running tests, and all you have are a bunch of .'s and E's 
> how are you supposed to tell what it failed on?  Also while the .'s 
> are alright for a short set, it would seem as if some sort of progress 
> description over each test file would be more descriptive of the 
> progress while testing.
>
> Has this been gone over before?  Any particular reason for the choice 
> of the dotted output?

Did you try passing your test --help on the commandline? I think 
--verbose is what you're looking for:

   ntalbott@jacob:~/tmp$ cat t.rb
   require 'test/unit'

   class T < Test::Unit::TestCase
     def test1
     end

     def test2
     end
   end

   ntalbott@jacob:~/tmp$ ruby t.rb
   Loaded suite t
   Started
   ..
   Finished in 0.005947 seconds.

   2 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
   ntalbott@jacob:~/tmp$ ruby t.rb --verbose
   Loaded suite t
   Started
   test1(T): .
   test2(T): .

   Finished in 0.009733 seconds.

   2 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

HTH,


Nathaniel
Terralien, Inc.

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