Re: Reporting setup problems separately?

2007-07-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
SKIP might be a good idea to avoid running tests that cannot work due to some missing prereq or bad environment or whatever but it still does not solve the reporting problem. There can be calls like this ok($ok, environment is ready); and calls like this ok($ok, system under test works well);

Re: Reporting setup problems separately?

2007-07-25 Thread David Cantrell
Gabor Szabo wrote: So does that mean others are not interested in separate reporting of thing is broken vs could not even execute test I'm very much interested in it. I've not been following the rest of this thread, but if you're talking about reporting things like XS modules not

Re: Reporting setup problems separately?

2007-07-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-24 08:45]: That is, there is a phase where I setup the test environment and then there is the actual test. Obviously each phase can consists of several ok() functions. Right. The setup phase is called the “fixture” in testing lingo and it should not be