Re: [lmi] Automated GUI testing, revisited

[Greg Chicares]

On 2014-11-12 01:01Z, Boutin, Wendy wrote:
> Greg Chicares wrote: 
[...]
>> BTW, we were talking off the mailing list about doing away with the
>> log window and just writing test output to either
>>  (1) a flat text file, or
>>  (2) stdout or stderr as the case may be.
>> Do you have a preference between those? I'm leaning toward (2).
> 
> IIUC, I'd prefer (2) also. It's the same way we capture build results when,
> for example, compiling the system with a command like:
>   make install >buildlog 2&>1
> right?

Exactly.

And I envision adding a target to run 'wx_test', which could save
output to timestamped files as we now do with system-test 'md5sums'
files--and, of course, 'md5sum' writes to stdout and stderr.