SEP #81: Extend test_run to export in a xUnit format

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hi


      Abstract

This SEP details the introduction of a fourth argument for test_run.


      Rationale

Continous integration systems are becoming more and more popular. Among
the most famous software in this domain, Jenkins (formelly called
Hudson) has now become the reference.

As part of the quality effort on Scilab, Scilab Enterprises has setup an
instance of Jenkins available:

http://build.scilab.org/

In this context, it is important that the Scilab test suite could be
integrated in Jenkins in order to let Jenkins managing new test failing,
the amount of tests, etc.


This SEP proposes to introduce a fourth argument to the test_run
function. This string argument, it would define the path to an XML file
containing the result of the execution.

The selected format is called xUnit. Already normalized, it is used by
Junit, PHPUnit, and many other.

This will allow a simple integration of Scilab results into third party
applications.


      *Syntax*

status = test_run(module,test_name,options, XMLFile)


      Example Usage

status = test_run("core",[],[], TMPDIR+/"results-test-core.xml")



Thanks for the comments,
Sylvestre

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Sylvestre Ledru
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