Regression test issues

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-05 17:24:22

I'm trying to walk the directory tree left by boost-root/status/Jamfile to 
generate HTML tables. Two issues strike me:

1) If a test fails to compile, sometimes the full directory sub-tree isn't 
created, and there is thus no <test-name>.test file. This leaves a hole in 
the HTML table. It would be better (at least for the table tree-walk) to 
place the file in the boost-root/status/bin/<test-name> directory, and do 
it regardless of test success. In fact, once it gets generated, it need 
never change again. But see (2).

2) The requirement that test names be unique is really problematical. It 
will get much worse as Boost grows. If a test 
boost-root/libs/foo/example/bar.cpp was identified as foo.example.bar (and 
the directory thus named boost-root/status/bin/foo.example.bar instead of 
the current boost-root/status/bin/bar.test), it would solve both the 
uniqueness problem and allow elimination of the .test file, so (1) would 
also go away.

It it a real frustration I haven't been able to understand enough about Jam 
to make such a change myself. And I know Dave is busy with other 
things. Perhaps someone else could lend a hand.

--Beman