Re: [gnome-desktop-testing] Mago discovery method + make check

[Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com>]

Hi!

On 07/10/09 16:14, Javier Collado wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The problem regarding the folders should be solved by setting MAGO_PATH
> environment variable properly.
>    
MAGO_PATH was properly set to ".", but it skips the current folder, and 
start looking in subfolders.

Regards,
Ara.

> Regarding the return value, it's ok to return an error response if some test
> case has failed. Anyway, as far as I know, this doesn't affect checkbox
> integration since the goal is to parse log files directly to get all test case
> results.
>
> Best regards,
>      Javier
>
> Ara Pulido wrote:
>    
> > Hello all!
> >
> > The Ayatana team [1] are using mago for their acceptance tests as part
> > of their "make check" tests. They were using a version of mago that
> > didn't include the discovery methods.
> > When they upgraded to the newest mago, the tests didn't run anymore.
> >
> > The problem is that discovery only searches in the subfolders, but not
> > the current folder. That won't work to integrate in a make check, as
> > mago will be called directly from the tests folder. I have reported this
> > as bug 445216 [2].
> >
> > The other problem that they are having, is that mago always returns 0
> > (success). They would like it to return non-zero if no tests were found
> > or a test case failed. I have reported this as bug 444608 [3].
> >
> > As these are important changes I wanted to start a discussion about them
> > on the mailing list, to see what people think. I am specially interested
> > in the return 0 one, as it may affect some of the integration with other
> > test runners (checkbox???)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ara.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://launchpad.net/~ayatana
> > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mago/+bug/445216
> > [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mago/+bug/444608
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