Re: mauve Harness and RunnerProcess Proposal

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>]

(CC'ing the mailing list.)

On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 16:51 +0000, James Ahmed wrote:
> Hi there, 
> 
> 
>          I recently started using the Mauve testcases on a Custom JVM.
>         And i noticed a small little feature i thought would be a
>         great addition to the Project.
>         For better automation, test cases should create an xml file
>         based on their file name.
>         
>         
>         So for instance a command line option "-autoXml <results_dir>"
>         would create xml files containing the results of the test runs
>         in the <results_dir> specidied.
>         
>         
>         so running testcase java/beans/XMLDecoder/EqualityChecker.java
>         would create 
>         <results_dir>/java/beans/XMLDecoder/EqualityChecker.xml
>         so running java.*
>         would populate the relevant xml files in their relevant
>         locations.
>         
>         
>         The argument here is that this will help automated testers
>         gather the results more efficiently?
>         
>         
>         I would like to know if  this change would be accepted before
>         i began making it.

If Mauve doesn't already support this sort of thing, it certainly makes
sense to me to add it.

			Pekka