[erlang-questions] common test hiding errors?

[Jon Watte]

Here's how I would view the situation:

Erlang allows processes to crash -- "let it crash!"

The question is: What behavior are you getting from the function under test?
If it doesn't behave the way it's specified to, that should generate a test
failure.

Once you've detected that there is a test failure, you should be able to
re-run the test manually (say, from command line) to debug it.


Is your request really something like: "When a CommonTest fails, how can I
do post-mortem debugging on the failing test case"?


Sincerely,

jw


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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Lukas Larsson wrote:
>
> > Common Test detects any crashes which happen in the same process as the
> testcase is run in. If a crash happens in another process, it will not be
> detected unless you in your testcase check whether said process is alive or
> is linked to it. Could this be what is going wrong?
>
> Yes, that's what's going on. I'm cannot link to all the processes in the
> "system under testing", I think that's unrealistic.
>
> I do expect to be told when something goes wrong, though, get a printout in
> the log, etc.
>
> This is in line with what EUnit does, for example.
>
> > If you're still having difficulties, could you post a minimal example of
> what you are trying to do? It's difficult to guess what could be the problem
> without an example to look at.
>
> It's another process that's crashes.
>
> > Also if you want to have the SASL and error_logger output in your common
> test logs instead of redirecting them to a local file you might want to use
> the cth_log_redirect hook found here
> https://github.com/garazdawi/cth_tools.
>
>
> I'm perfectly fine with redirecting error_logger output to a local file but
> it seems that it shows up just fine in the CT logs.
>
> What's not showing up is error messages from other processes crashing, a
> completely unintuitive behavior, I think.
>
>        Thanks, Joel
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