[Buildbot-devel] parsing googletests, collecting stats

[Tom Prince]

Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion at dion.org.ua> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:41:27AM +0200, Benoît Allard wrote:
>> You're talking about Google C++ Testing Framework [1], right ?
>> 
>> We do have a custom step for that. The trick is to call the testsuite with an extra::
>> 
>>   --gtest_output=xml:testoutput.xml
>> 
>> And add that testoutput.xml to your ``logfiles`` with something like::
>> 
>>   kwargs['logfiles'] = {'xml': 'testoutput.xml'}
>> 
>
> It's still a bit dangerous. Imagine that gtest will just crash. In such
> case XML file will be broken. That's why I suggest to ignore XML output
> itself and parse stdout.

Or just use an xml parser that is resilient to errors, and can return
everything that has been parsed succesfully.

  Tom