1066161 - [mozlog] Mozlog should be able to interpret test expectations from test manifests

Status: NEW

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[Chris Manchester (limited bugmail, email directly)]

From a review comment in bug 1033126. Reading test objects from a manifest means understanding which ones are expected failures. We're communicating this to structured logging by hand per harness, perhaps we could do it directly.

Comment 1

[James Graham [:jgraham]]

What do you mean, exactly? The logical separation here is that moztest or something should know how to read manifest files and construct some sort of Test objects which would include the expectation value. Possibly this could be pushed down into manifestparser, depending on whether one believes that having lots of logic about the semantics of the manifests rather than just the syntax in that module is a good idea. I don't think putting information about the manifest format into mozlog itself would be a good idea at all.

Comment 2

[Chris Manchester (limited bugmail, email directly)]

We get test objects out of the manifest parser already. The proposal is to be able to pass a test object into mozlog for the convenience of logging from the harnesses.