Re: [Boost-testing] Understanding and customizing Boost Regression Tests HTML reports by Boost.Build logs processing tools (compiler_status and proccess_jam_log)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 20:21:20

"Voronkov Konstantin" <beowinkle_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:dcd67k$1d7$1_at_sea.gmane.org...

> I'm going to perform regression tests in our company
>  using Boost Regression Tests framework. I have few
> questions about customization of HTML reports.
>
>
> 1. There is table which contains records for each test.
>  The table contains Library column which sometimes is
> filled and sometimes is not. What is affected the fill
> of the column?
> Also there is column Test Type which sometimes is empty
>  and sometimes is "unknown". Why test type can be unknown
> or empty? I expect test type contain one of "run, run-fail,
> link, link-fail, and compile, compile-fail values.
> How can I fix that the column is always filled?
>
>
> 2. Each row in table with tests has next view:
> <tr>
>  <td>
>   <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/libs/">
>   </a>
>  </td>
>  <td>
>   <a
> href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/boost/boost/?view=markup&rev=HEAD">
> autoRegTestsSample
>   </a>
>  </td>
>  <td></td>
>  <td>
>   <a href="cs-win32-links.html#-autoRegTestsSample-vc7">
>    <font color="#FF0000"><i>Fail</i></font>
>   </a>
>  </td>
> </tr>
>
> Can how to customize the links to cvs.sourcefourge.net to point
>  somewhere to our place? Is is possible that Boost Regression
> Tests automatically fills the target with content? Is there
> any documentation at this point?
>
>
> 3. There are few built-in links. E.g. for msvc toolset
>  it proposes to re-direct to msdn.microsoft.com site,
> the tests explanations are located at address:
> compiler_status.html#test-type, the picture is
> located in ../boost.png.
> Can those links be customized?

Basically, compiler_status was designed for Boost use, and no thought was 
given to customization for other organizations.

If you wanted to tackle a redesign, I'm sure other Boosters would appreciate 
it.

One approach would be to read in a parameter file (XML format?) which 
provided strings for all the customization points.

HTH,

--Beman