[erlang-questions] Error in Common Tests

[Peter Andersson]

Roberto,

You won't get test case line info if it's the last line of execution
that causes the timetrap timeout. Because of tail call elimination the
{Suite,Testcase,Line} info is not saved on stack unless there's a
trailing expression. I.e.

tc(_) -> func_that_may_not_return().

will not generate test case line info if it fails, but

tc(_) -> func_that_may_not_return(), ok.

will.

That said, Common Test removes internal common_test and test_server
elements from the stack before printing the stack trace to the log. This
operation is too agressive and removes all elements if no
{Suite,Testcase,Line} tuple is found "to sync with". Knowing it must be
the last call in the test case causing the timeout and knowing which
internal function executed the test case, I should be able to print
relevant stack info to the log even when a test case tuple is not
present due to tail call elimination. Fix is coming asap...

Best,
Peter

Ericsson AB, Erlang/OTP


On 2015-04-29 13:15, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> Loïc,
> Yes that did help me. It just stated {error,eoc} (i.e. no line of
> where this happened) but at least I could track it down to the issue.
>
> Thank you.
> r.
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED
> <mailto:essen@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Did you look inside the HTML logs that Common Test generates? They
>     usually contain the complete error and stacktrace, while the
>     console only gets partials.
>
>
>     On 04/29/2015 01:54 PM, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
>
>         Dear list,
>         When running CT I have a test where I get:
>
>         - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>         Error detected: {'EXIT',{badmatch,{...}}}
>         - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>         No additional information. My application logs do not show any
>         errors.
>
>         Weirdly enough, if I put a timer:sleep(10) somewhere in my
>         code, this
>         error does not show up anymore.
>
>         Thing is: how can I get CT to tell me the module / line where
>         this error
>         happens?
>
>         Thank you,
>         r.
>
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