1091627 - Understanding ./mach xpcshell-test output is near impossible due to amount of console spam

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1091413

(Testing :: XPCShell Harness, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

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On a reasonable sized console, trying to read and understand the output of single 
test run is so bad its near impossible.

See the attached log for an example running:

./mach xpcshell-test browser/components/loop/test/xpcshell/test_loopservice_busy.js

Whilst there may be things like unexpected javascript warnings, repeating the same command information over and over again isn't right nor helpful.

Marking as blocker, as this is just wasting developer time - I can just about find *my* errors in the test, but finding real output is really difficult.

Comment 1

[Chris Manchester (limited bugmail, email directly)]

I think this is a dupe up bug 1091413, but the severity is well taken. I will post a patch to fix this today, but as an immediate workaround passing '--log-tbpl -' to mach will result in a less noisy output format for the single test case.