[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44303] resolve duplication / merge runtests and __run_test_suite__

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44303>

                 Summary: resolve duplication / merge runtests and
__run_test_suite__
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Thu 19 Feb 2015 12:13:06 AM EST
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

There is a lot of duplicated functionality between the runtests.m and
__run_test_suite__.m function files. Both functions have equivalent code to
find files with unit tests, recurse into subdirectories, and display test
results in a formatted output to the screen.

The __run_test_suite__ function primarily exists to support the fntests.m
script used by `make check`. But it can also be used to run the full test
suite on an installed copy of Octave. It also creates the fntests.log file.

The runtests function is more useful for testing functions in packages or in
arbitrary directories on the load path. The output is slightly different from
__run_test_suite__, and no log file is written.

It would be preferable to merge these functions or at least factor out as much
common code as possible.




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