Re: Autotest

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:16:21PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >FYI, I have applied the pending patch to branch-2-0, and the patch below
> >to HEAD.  It uses the new testsuite, and sure again feels a little like
> >working around the limitations of Autotest.  Suggestions for improvement
> >welcome.  We should also start to think about using the grouping
> >feature more consistently in the long run.
> 
> Please expand on what you think we need to do about autotest. What grouping 
> feature?

Well, you have AT_BANNER for headings, and AT_SETUP for groups of tests
and AT_CHECK for one command to test.  I meant grouping under AT_BANNER.
But looking at how things are at the moment, maybe there is no need to
change that.

Other than that, maybe we can use AT_KEYWORDS to our advantage.  Have
not thought yet how.

> I'd like, for example, to be able to give the user feedback for each 
> AT_CHECK, but that does not seem to be possible.

Hmm, you have RUN_IF_FAIL and RUN_IF_PASS options.  I don't know whether
you are supposed to feedback on stdout or stderr, however.

Regards,
Ralf