248202 - runtests.pl should be verbose about problems by default

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Testing Suite, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

runtests.sh isn't verbose by default, although you can make it be verbose by
specifying "--verbose".  The problem is that neither output style gives me what
I want (and think most people want) most of the time: quiet for test successes
and verbosity for test failures.  Instead I get scant info about problems by
default and so much info about everything with "--verbose" that I have to hunt
for info on problems.

runtests.sh should by default be quiet about test successes and verbose about
test failures.  "--verbose" can then mean "be verbose about everything" as it
currently does, and a "--quiet" option can be added to make runtests.sh be quiet
about everything (as is currently the default).

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

By looking at Test/Harness.pm, it looks like the only parameter available to
control the output is $verbose, which can take only two values 0 or 1. If you
only want errors to be displayed, it looks like you would have to hack
Harness.pm, which is not part of Bugzilla.