[jira] Updated: (HARMONY-268) Custom JUnit results formatters to provide console progress messages

["George Harley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-268?page=all ]

George Harley updated HARMONY-268:
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    Attachment: Harmony-268-part1.txt

Two very simple custom JUnit result formatters that I propose we drop straight into folder support/src/tests/java/tests/util/junit. 

* tests.util.junit.HarmonyXMLJUnitResultsFormatter - simply extends org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.XMLJUnitResultFormatter and sends status messages to stdout when test events are received after delegating to the parent to do the report-building work.

* tests.util.junit.HarmonyPlainJUnitResultsFormatter - simply extends org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.PlainJUnitResultFormatter and sends status messages to stdout when test events are received after delegating to the parent to do the report-building work.

An example of using these in an Ant script would be as follows (keeping my fingers crossed that this renders alright) ...

<test name="tests.luni.AllTestsWithExclusions"
    todir="${hy.tests.reports}"
    haltonfailure="no" >

    <formatter 
        classname="tests.util.junit.HarmonyPlainJUnitResultsFormatter"
        extension=".txt"/>
      	
</test>	

If using the tests.util.junit.HarmonyXMLJUnitResultsFormatter class then the "extension" attribute value would be changed to ".xml" .


Hope this helps, 
George

> Custom JUnit results formatters to provide console progress messages
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HARMONY-268
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-268
>      Project: Harmony
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: Misc
>  Environment: All
>     Reporter: George Harley
>  Attachments: Harmony-268-part1.txt
>
> This is related to HARMONY-263. If the "junit" task is used with a "test" child element rather than a "batchtest" child element then there is no information written out to the console to let the tester know how the tests are getting on - the tester just has to wait until the run eventually terminates and the XML or plain text report gets written. This can be a bit disconcerting if the tests run for several minutes. 
> The suggested improvement to this is to specify a custom results formatter class in the "formatter" element that generates the required reports but also writes passed/failed/error messages to console as each test completes. 
> Patch to follow. 
> Best regards, 
> George

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