Re: Should we merge collective.xmltestreport into zope.testrunner?
Martin Aspeli <[email protected]>
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Hi, On 25 July 2010 16:58, Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Martin Aspeli <[email protected]> wrote: >> A while back, I wrote collective.xmltestreport [1,2]. In short, it's a >> wrapper around zope.testing's test runner that can produce output in >> an XML format compatible with the xUnit family of testing tools. This >> is useful for integrating with things like Hudson, which can parse >> these kinds of files. >> >> The problem is that changes in zope.testing/zope.testrunner keep >> breaking collective.xmltestreport. At first, I was using "-x" as the >> option to turn on XML output, before zope.testing took that option as >> its own. Now, with version 3.10, it's broken again, because it's >> trying to import zope.testing.testrunner, which is no longer there. >> >> I wonder if it'd be a good idea to just merge this functionality into >> zope.testrunner itself? > > We recently merged in support for subunit [0], which claims to have > amongst others "subunit2junitxml - convert a subunit stream to a JUnit > XML representation.". Cool! > That sounds to me very much like the same functionality. Having two > ways of getting the same result seems suboptimal to me. But I haven't > looked into subunit yet, so I'm not sure if it is cross-platform and > easily installable. I'd love to see someone write up some > documentation on how to use it inside Hudson ;) Definitely. collective.xmltestreport is a bit clunky anyway. If we have something better, I'm all for it. > [0] https://launchpad.net/subunit/ Are there any docs on how this actually works? I see a changelog entry for zope.testing, but no information on how to actually use it. :( Martin _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )