Re: [PATCH] tests: improve readability

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM Philippe Altherr
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> My recommendations/wishes:
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>> Put at least the main summary line and the star lines in bold
>> Use more fine grained coloring for the summary line (see results of my sed command)
>> Put the star lines in red if there are any failures and otherwise in green (and maybe in cyan if there are only skipped files)
>
> I forgot the most useful: use a third color to highlight messages, like ones for skipped test files/cases, that are neither error nor success messages. Without highlighting, I have a hard time noticing these messages.
>
> Philippe
>

My only input on this:

Please do take non-interactive builds into account.  We've had people
who build binary distribution packages report issues with the test
suit before.

Rather than make a lot of changes to the test output itself, maybe
create something like Philippe's sed as a coprocess to filter the
output (and then using that only for interactive sessions).