Re: [boost] running regression tests

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-19 17:31:26

At 02:40 PM 1/18/2003, Ronald Garcia wrote:
 >
 >
 >On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >> Ronald Garcia <garcia_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >>
 >> > Is there a way to get this to work without previously running the
 >entire
 >> > boost test suite?  I just want to test one library.
 >>
 >> For testing one library, forget about report generation.
 >>
 >> Just go to status/ and
 >> [...]
 >
 >Thanks.  Thanks to the joys of unix filtering technology, I can get this
 >output to at least give me the basic information that I would like.  Now 
I
 >am wondering, with the current set of tools, is it possible to generate
 >the reports that Beman has been generating for windows for just one
 >library?

Yes, I do it all the time when testing the filesystem library, and others 
do it for other libs. Here is how it works:

* Rather than specifying the tests in boost-root/status/Jamfile, place a 
subinclude there.  For example, the current file has these:

# Tests from Jamfiles in individual library test subdirectories
subinclude libs/filesystem/test ;
subinclude libs/type_traits/test ;       # test-suite type_traits
subinclude libs/regex/test ;             # test-suite regex
subinclude libs/regex/example ;          # test-suite regex-examples
subinclude libs/static_assert ;    # test-suite static_assert

* In your own lib, usually in the "test" subdirectory, place a Jamfile with 
the tests for that library.  See any of the above for examples.

* To test (and report) just your library, run bjam and the reporting 
programs from boost-root/libs/my-lib/test (or wherever the Jamfile lives.)

 >  I have found them to be very very helpful with working on
 >multi_array, especially being able to track down compiler messages via
 >hypertext.
 >
 >If this can't be done by library right now, is there any sense of the
 >amount of work needed to get there?

You should be able to get it running in a few minutes.  See portions of the 
script in CVS: boost-root/tools/regression/run_tests.sh.

HTH,

--Beman