[PATCH] test: optionally print subtest number

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:24:23 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW I have some plans to introduce optional explicit test ids that can
> be used for inter-test dependencies.  E.g.:
> 
>   test_begin_subtest test-id-1 "A subtest"
>   ....
>   ;; in another test requre that test-id-1 passed
>   test_require_subtest test-id-1

Would the required test need to be listed twice, both on the
begin_subtest line *and* in the require_subtest line?

And again, why would the test id have to be any different that the
existing test names?  The tests already have names, so I don't
understand why we would want to introduce some other kind of
identification.  Seems like it's just going to add extra confusion.

And speaking of which, I sometimes worry that the test infrastructure
itself is getting too complicated.  Pretty soon we're going to need
tests for the tests.  I don't necessarily see the need to all of these
extra features in the test suite, so I worry that it's just making
everything harder to debug.

jamie.
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