[Boost-users] Re: Redirecting the detailed test report

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-20 04:06:26

> Hi,
>
> Recently we have decided to use the Boost Test libraries to provide
automated
> tests to our project. To help with the test result visualization, we
created
> an utility to generate HTML pages from Boost test reports (as generated
by --
> report_level=detailed). In the begining of implementation, the amount of
> tests was small and we could just cut-and-paste the test report to a file
> used as the input of out in-house HTML generator. Now, the amount of tests
> increased and cutting-and-pasting the report become a pain.
>
> So the question: How can we send the test report to a separated file? We
used
>
> unit_test_log::instance().set_log_stream( stream )
>
> in the definition of
>
> test_suite* init_unit_test_suite( int argc, char* argv[] )
>
> to redirect the test log and it worked fine. However,
>
> unit_test_result::instance().detailed_report( stream )
>
> can not be used in the same way. We can not simply redirect the test
output
> to a file (using ">") because our application prints lots of information
> during execution and is pretty hard to change this behavior.

Did you try to redirect only stderr using 2 > file_name? If it still
unacceptable you could patch unit_test_main.cpp locally. I will consider
adding this customization for next release.

Gennadiy.