[Boost-testing] --dump-tests not working reliably?

Subject: [Boost-testing] --dump-tests not working reliably?
From: Belcourt, K. Noel (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-07 13:08:46

Hi,

A number of nightly testers are generating incomplete test results as  
evidenced by white boxes on the test result page.  One source of these  
missing test results is that dump-tests doesn't seem to dump test  
output for some of the failed tests.  For example: the algorithm/ 
minmax minmax_element_test fails to produce output for tester Sandia- 
clang-trunk-c++11, but the nightly test log (bjam.log) shows that the  
minmax_element_test produced output, attached below, but there is no  
corresponding test_log.xml file generated.

Our inability to report compilation and/or runtime errors back to  
developers is a hinderance to their productivity and is a maintenance  
nightmare.  Does anyone have any ideas what prevents generation of the  
test_log.xml file for some test failures and not others?

-- Noel