Returning exit status for unit test invocation

[ezbc]

Exit status always 0 for unit tests

Currently running unit tests from the terminal only prints the test results to the terminal source link. If there are any failing unit tests, the user needs to examine the printed xml for any errors. The exit status will always remain 0 (succeeded).

For example running

./ml local test

will only return an exit status of 0 despite whether a unit test failed or not.

Use case

Returning an exit status for the unit tests would be valuable to automated builds of a project so that a build will fail a unit test fails.

Potential solution

One potential way to return the exit status based on the success of unit tests would be to parse the XML output from the test script, /test/default.xqy, and check if the "errors" or "failures" attributes in the testsuite element is anything but 0.

I plan on writing a solution for my local project. Let me know if you would like me to submit a pull request.

[grtjn]

We'd welcome a PR. There are instructions on how to Contribute to Roxy.

[ezbc]

Thanks for supporting this @grtjn. Apologies for not providing a PR!

[RobertSzkutak]

Fixed in dev