Re: [boost] Beta posted for new regression tests

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-24 09:37:34

At 10:03 AM 7/24/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

 >>  > I'll ask again: what residue
 >>  >are you using?
 >>
 >> In the target directory, the .output, .success, .failure, and .test
 >files.
 >
 >Oh :(
 >I guess I have no choice but to integrate the Python tests with 
testing.jam
 >then. It's probably just as well, but I wasn't ready for this right 
now...

Wouldn't it be better to wait for Boost.Build V2?  I thought it was fairly 
eminent.

It would be much easier to maintain the XML and status table generation 
code if lot of test information was reported in one file, rather than being 
spread over so many files. I'm hoping V2 will be able to handle that.

 >>  From the bjam output, the compile, link, and run messages.
 >>
 >>  From the Jamfile, the "run", "run-fail", "compile", "compile-fail",
 >> "link", and "link-fail" entries.
 >
 >Really, you're scanning the Jamfile?

Yes, and it is a real kludge.  But I couldn't see any other way to get the 
test type (comple, run, run-fail, etc).  I hope V2 will be able to put that 
information in the residue, or write it to the log.

 >That makes modularizing very difficult. If you want the testing rules to
 >generate a file that describes all the tests which get run, that would be
 >relatively easy to do, I think...

Yes, that would be nice. But I'd rather not ask for incremental changes to 
V1, unless something is totally broken.

--Beman

--Beman