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Tagging Your Test Cases

Bob Silva — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:59:00 -0700

Here's a quick way to follow your tests a little more closely in your test.log. In your test setup, add the following line:

def setup
  RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "\n\e[0;31mRUNNING TEST CASE: #{name}\e[m\n"
end

When you run your tests, you will now see something similar to this.

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Rob Sanheim

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:51:23 -0700

Thanks for that solution, Simon. I add something similar to my setup calls, and once spent a good amount of time trying to get it into test::unit. After much frustration, I gave up - there were just too many places that setup was getting redefined and aliased.

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Simon Nicholls

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:57:54 -0700

I think the setup method is a difficult extension point currently, & would require Module/Kernel hacks for method definition & method addition listening. Probably something like the code below would be enough, & is a decent enough fit since our logging does indeed aim to extend the test run rather than perform setup. Could be added directly to test_helper of course, but best wrapped as a Module

alias_method :old_run, :run unless method_defined?(:old_run)
def run(result, &progress_block)
  RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "\n\e[0;31mRUNNING TEST CASE: #{name}\e[m\n"
  old_run(result, &progress_block)
end

There are surely better ways than this though. Would be great to hear if anyone has done this kind of TestCase extension work

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Bob Silva

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:27:50 -0700

I'm sure you can reopen some Test::Unit classes to make it happen. I didn't look into it at all.

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Mariano

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:58:11 -0700

One of the things that when you see them you know that you missed it all along ;-) Isn't there a better place to put it? Somewhere were all Tests will benefit from it?

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Carlos Gabaldon

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:18:48 -0700

Very nice! Thanks for the tip!

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Bob Silva

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:32:34 -0700

Fixed, sorry about that.

"Tagging Your Test Cases" by Lee O'Mara

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:54:26 -0700

Not meaning to nitpick (and I would have sent this via email, but I couldn't locate your adderess), your IMG tags for this post aren't closed and that's causing problems downstream (eg. planet caboose's feed, at least in Vienna)