Re: [jamboost] Increasing reliability of main regression test

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-04 20:28:09

At 12:16 PM 1/4/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

>Tell me precisely what you need dumped and I'll add it to the testing
>rules when --dump-tests is used.

The current output looks like:

(boost-test "foo_test" : "libs/foo/test\foo_test.cpp" )

If you could add the test type ("run", "compile-fail", etc.) that would 
cover the only killer requirement.

So the above sample might become:

(boost-test "run" "foo_test" : "libs/foo/test\foo_test.cpp" )

That's the only "must have".

Nice to have, but not essential, would be a way to pass a string from the 
Jamfile to the "boost-test" output line.

We do this in the current setup by embedding the string in a comment:

# If the line with the test type includes the comment
# "# compiler_status<always_show_run_output>" then
# run output will be displayed even if the test passes.

Right now "always_show_run_output" is the only string recognized, but I 
want to implement several other features that need a way to pass a string. 
This would be nice, but isn't a showstopper.

--Beman