[XML-SIG] "Borrowed" tests

Mon, 09 Apr 2001 06:23:24 -0600

> > > One of the problems I have with your "borrowed" test cases is that it
> > > is not always easy to tell PASS from FAIL; they just produce a lot of
> > > output. To be useful for a user, a clear pass/fail indication is
> > > necessary.
> > 
> > Hmm.  All the 4DOM and 4XSLT tests do indicate pass/fail using the "[OK]" or 
> > "[FAILED]" notation we borrowed from Red Hat start-up scripts.
> 
> Does that include the files which currently live in /xml/test/dom? I
> run that as 'python test.py', and see no such output. Some of the
> tests end with printing 'foo works', some only write the test name
> (such as
> 
> ********** Node **********
> ********** NodeList **********
> ********** NamedNodeMap **********
> ********** NodeIterator **********
> ********** TreeWalker **********
> ********** Attr **********
> ...
> 
> The entire test run ends with
> 
> ********** HTML HTML_DOM_IMPLEMENTATION **********
> testing source code syntax
>  
> <HTML>
>   <HEAD>
>     <TITLE>The Title</TITLE>
>   </HEAD>
>   <BODY></BODY>
> </HTML>
> Test Time - 1.782 secs
> 
> That probably means 'pass', although I'm not certain whether I would
> recognize a failure.

Odd.  I wonder if the checked-in version is out of date.

Jeremy, any ideas?

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