On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:58:00PM +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > But I think there is value in seeing the error message in the test code. > > It makes it much easier for those reading the test code to follow > > what kind of error the test is expecting. If all people can go by > > is the error code, then they'll have to keep looking up error codes > > to understand what the test is trying to do. > > I think that's worse than adjusting tests when the message changes > > every once in a while. > > Actually earlier there was request like this. So I thought it is ok to > have it here also. Please see r1071961.
That has expected errors that only list error codes, yes. I would prefer a regex that contains at least part of the error message to make it more obvious what the error is about.