On Jan 22, 12:52pm, Tels wrote:
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> Moin,
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> On 22-Jan-02 Matt Sergeant tried to scribble about:
> > Is it possible for cpan testers to send the output of:
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> > $ make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
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> > On failure, rather than plain make test? It would make debugging
> > these things a lot easier. Thanks!
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> I am currently hacking together scripts to automate testing for me,
I'd bet others would be interested in those... I am, for instance.
> and deciding upon failure re-run the test with verbose and then
> remove the ok lines. Would that be okay in style?
I would suggest _not_ removing the "ok" lines surrounding a particular
failure (or other unexpected output). In case the line ordering gets
mixed up, or the program entirely crashes as opposed to returning "not
ok", that appears to be a helpful precaution.
-Allen
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