Re: [Boost-testing] Help wanted: regression tests xsl maintenance

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-18 17:09:56

Sebastian Redl wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> The "very small addition" is to display the revision number, in the
>> form "rev 12345" or similar, in the column header, centered under the
>> "runner". The number will be supplied as the value for a new
>> "revision" property in the results file. Here is the python code that
>> will create it, to give you the context:
>>
>>     results_xml.startElement(
>>           'test-run'
>>         , {
>>               'tag':        tag
>>             , 'platform':   platform
>>             , 'runner':     runner_id
>>             , 'timestamp':  timestamp
>>             , 'source':     source
>>             , 'run-type':   run_type
>>             , 'revision':   revision
>>             }
>>         )
> Hi,
> 
> That's a pretty trivial change, but I'd need some data to actually test
> it. Where do I get regression XML from, and how do I run the
> transformations with all paths correct?
> 
> Attached is how I would imagine this to work (as a patch against the
> current trunk).

Wow! Thanks! That is a huge help!

I've just finished some initial testing here on the runner script 
changes to generate 'revision' and will try them live on the 
'BGD-Ubuntu' runner in two or three hours.

--Beman