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    <h3 class="western" align="JUSTIFY">Abstract</h3>
    <p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
          color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                  normal">This
                  SEP details the introduction of a fourth argument for
                  test_run.</span></span></font></font></font></span></p>
    <h3 class="western" align="JUSTIFY">Rationale</h3>
    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">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.</span></font></font></font></span></p>
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        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">As
                part of the quality effort on Scilab, Scilab Enterprises
                has setup an
                instance of Jenkins available:</span></font></font></font></span></p>
    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><a
        href="http://build.scilab.org/"><span style="font-variant:
          normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
                size="3"><span style="font-style: normal">http://build.scilab.org/</span></font></font></font></span></a></p>
    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">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.</span></font></font></font></span></p>
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    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">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.</span></font></font></font></span></p>
    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">The
                selected format is called xUnit. Already normalized, it
                is used by
                Junit, PHPUnit, and many other. </span></font></font></font></span>
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    <p style="font-weight: normal" align="JUSTIFY"><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span
                style="font-style: normal">This
                will allow a simple integration of Scilab results into
                third party
                applications.</span></font></font></font></span></p>
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            size="4"><b>Syntax</b></font></font></font></h3>
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      <font color="#000000"> <font face="Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><font
            size="3">status
            = test_run(module,test_name,options, XMLFile)
          </font></font></font></p>
    <h3 class="western" align="JUSTIFY"><tt><font face="Nimbus Sans L,
          sans-serif"><font size="4"><span lang="en-US">Example
              Usage</span></font></font></tt></h3>
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            size="3">status
            = test_run(“core”,[],[], TMPDIR+/”results-test-core.xml”)
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    Thanks for the comments,<br>
    Sylvestre<br>
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