Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Target-2.5.5 Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement
New issue 691 by pekka.klarck: Command line option to report skipped test
data files as warnings
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=691
Currently when a directory is executed, files that don't contain test data
are ignored. A message is written into syslog using info level, so in
practice files are skipped silently. This is done to prevent spurious
warnings when there are non-test files in the executed directory, but as a
result also test data files with invalid content are silently ignored.
To make it easier to detect invalid files, we can add a command line option
to report skipped files as warnings. After that the messages are displayed
on console and log files.
I think it's better to report warnings only from files that are actually
parsed. Files that are skipped because they cannot even contain test data
(e.g. 'foo.jpg', 'no_extension', '.config.txt') can still be skipped
silently.
