Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> writes:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> Awesome!  Are the “inner” tests displayed by default?  Or is there some
>> environment variable to control that?
>
> Yes, each test case is displayed by default.
>
>> I’d prefer the default to display only file names, as is currently the
>> case (it’s more concise.)
>
> IMO This would be reasonable to have an option for making the output more
> concise since there are 563 test cases in Guix.  this is not part of the
> test driver API specification, but it does not seem too hard to add an
> additional option to the test driver script like what the TAP driver is
> doing:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Use-TAP-with-the-Automake-test-harness
>
> I think ‘--brief’ could be a good name for this option.  Default
> verbosity would specified by adding “AM_SCM_LOG_DRIVER= --brief=yes” in
                                       ^^^
                                       AM_SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS
> Makefile.am, then the user can overide that with:
>
>   make check -j4 TESTS=tests/rocket-science.scm SCM_LOG_DRIVER="--brief=no"
                                                  ^^^
                                                  SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS
>
[...]
>> Nice.  “Running the Test Suite” needs to be updated accordingly.
>
> Thanks for reminding me this.  ;)

Here is an updated patch with the implementation of what is described
above.  As a bonus There is a bug fix for the ‘--color-tests’ option and
a few docstring/comment changes.

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Mathieu Lirzin