Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#241 closed defect (fixed)

Improve presentation of test results from buildpack

Reported by: Ian Culverwell Owned by: Ian Culverwell
Priority: normal Milestone: 5.1
Component: ROPP (all) Version: 5.0
Keywords: make test Cc:

Description

ROPP5.0 beta tester Luiz Sapucci commented that the plethora of images that pop up when running the package tests implicit within buildpack, is a bit confusing. We think he has a point.

I suggest that as each figure is produced, it and its corresponding reference image are displayed on the screen. After the user has compared them, he or she should hit return, which should delete the images and plot the next two.

Change history (7)

comment:1 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Summary: Improve presentation of results from buildpackImprove presentation of test results from buildpack

comment:2 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Milestone: 5.1

comment:3 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Milestone: 5.16.0

comment:4 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Owner: set to Ian Culverwell
Status: newassigned

comment:5 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Milestone: 6.05.1

Implemented in ROPP5.1. By default, the scripts generate a non-stop series of images, as before. This prevents the test folder from hanging, as compiler tests call buildpack. But if the environment variable ROPP_PAUSE is set to TRUE (or anything, in fact) and exported before running buildpack or make test, then the scripts pause after each pair of figures (new and reference) has been plotted, and wait for the user to hit any key before continuing. In this case, the plots are erased before continuing.

comment:6 by Dave Offiler, 13 years ago

I suggest that the pause is actually the default action (as being a user-request, users shouldn't have to do anything extra); the non-default action for testing is then needing to set the environment variable -D.

comment:7 by Ian Culverwell, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
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