563434 - Mochitest needs to output " INFO Running foobar.test " to the log before it starts a given test

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Testing :: General, defect)

Description

[Murali Nandigama [:murali]]

Mochitest needs to output " INFO Running foobar.test " to the log before it starts a given test

Currently, if there is a test failure due to time out, we are not able to figure out what test has timed out exactly. 

This should be a minor change and a low hanging fruit to implement ASAP.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

can you verify with releng that the tinderbox parsers would not be affected by this?

I would make the change here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/mochitest/tests/SimpleTest/TestRunner.js#147

Murali, is this the type of output you are interested in:
INFO | tests/content/base/test/test_title.html | Starting Test.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Attachment: SimpleTest patch

It turns out that mochitest can already do this, but this change turns this on by default.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Murali, whether or not this change gets checked in, you can cause mochitest to work as you want by adding --console-level=DEBUG to your command-line.

Comment 4

[Murali Nandigama [:murali]]

Jgriffin, thanks for the top. I am scraping results from Tinderbox and so, I would very much appreciate your patch getting approved :)

Comment 5

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Actually this patch is bogus, this already works on m-c.  Are you working on another branch and find this doesn't work?  We may just need to port an existing fix to 1.9.3 et al.