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Comment #1 on issue 876 by pekka.klarck: rebot-generated report.html should
link directly to pybot-generated log.html files
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=876
This is a good idea but unfortunately in this format it has some problems.
I'll explain the problems below, but let me first tell that I just
submitted issue 880 that is otherwise identical with this idea but the
individual log files are regenerated. The benefits ought to be same,
though, as you would get several log files and single monster file.
Problems:
1) It is possible that different options have been used when the logs have
been generated earlier and when a combined report is generated. If, for
example, different --critical/--noncritical options are used, tests in logs
don't fully match tests in report. Even worse, options like
--include/--exclude can lead to a situation where a test in report doesn't
even exist in a log file or vice versa.
2) It is somewhat complicated to tell which log file matches which output
file. This is especially problematic if there are multiple output files and
the process should be fully automated. We probably needed to come up with
some convention (such as x-output.xml matching y-log.html) but that means
that everyone must adapt to this convention.
3) If we anyway need to read the output files to be able to produce a
combined report, generating the log files isn't that big a task.
What do you think, would you be happy with only issue 880 being
implemented? What kind of benefits implementing also this would give?
