Re: [lmi] Better error messages for the GUI test failures

[Greg Chicares]

On 01/24/2015 10:18 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
>  Here is the promised patch improving the error messages in case of GUI
> test failures. A large(r) part of these changes is actually in wxWidgets
> itself and so you need to use 0eca25d395c384fa6ecfaa7120e3be0c129c618a
> (r78416) or later for this to work and, actually, with that wxWidgets
> version it should already be possible to identify what exactly fails in the
> validate_output_illustration test on Kimberley's machine, but the patch
> makes it even easier by adding unique descriptive messages to almost all
> wxTEST_DIALOG() calls ("almost" because I didn't modify those that will
> need to be changed in the near future anyhow).

A monthly release goes out this week. This is our first production release
using a wx git snapshot, so we've frozen a snapshot and have been testing
it carefully. Later this week we'll update wx and apply this patch, which
promises to be very helpful, so thanks in advance.