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

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-15 08:02:11

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:40:50 -0500, John Maddock  wrote:

> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:50:24 -0500, 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.
>> [...]
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> FYI, $BOOST_ROOT/tools/regression/xsl_reports/test/ directory
>> contains a test suite that does not require any external regression
>> results and generally makes modification of XSL reports much easier:
>>
>>  - generate_test_results.py: generates incoming XML results
>>    enumerating all possible combinations of test failures / expected
>>    failures markup.
>
> I don't see that script in SVN?
>
>>  - test.py: uses XMLs produced by generate_test_results.py to
>>    generate the corresponding report pages.
>
> That I do see: along with a batch file, that appears to run the old
> compiler_status program rather than the newer XSLT based code.
>
> Am I missing something?

Yes :). You are looking at $BOOST_ROOT/tools/regression/test/ directory
vs. $BOOST_ROOT/tools/regression/xsl_reports/test/.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering