Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] parallel-tests: allow each test to have multiple results

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Friday 17 June 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Friday 17 June 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:03:59AM CEST:
> > > With this change, we improve the code creating the `test-suite.log'
> > > global log and the console testsuite summary to make it   able to
> > > grasp multiple results per test script.  This is required in order
> > > to introduce the planned support for test protocols, like TAP and
> > > SubUnit, which can run multiple testcases per test script.
> > > The implementation makes use of a custom reStructuredText field
> > > `:am-testcase-result:'.
> > 
> > Why an Automake-specific name here?
> >
> To make it harder for "generic" output from a test case to match it.
> Otherwise, we risk spurious test results.
> 
> > This is user facing, it should be ':testcase-result:'.
> >
> OK, it seems pretty unlikely that it will be in generic test outputs
> either.  It's also visually more pleasant, so let's go with it.
> 
Well, I see from a later mail that you dislike the "testcase" term, and
by googling I can see that it is rather ambiguous.  So let's go with
":test-result:" instead.  We can still change it if we find a better
terminology later.

Regards,
  Stefano