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diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml index 657a72ef8c..6b37e183dd 100644 --- a/lib/common_test/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml +++ b/lib/common_test/doc/src/run_test_chapter.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ </legalnotice> - <title>Running Tests</title> + <title>Running Tests and Analyzing Results</title> <prepared>Peter Andersson, Kenneth Lundin</prepared> <docno></docno> <date></date> @@ -1087,18 +1087,18 @@ </list> <p>On the test run index page there is a link to the Common Test - Framework log file in which information about imported - configuration data and general test progress is written. This - log file is useful to get snapshot information about the test - run during execution. It can also be very helpful when - analyzing test results or debugging test suites.</p> + Framework Log file in which information about imported + configuration data and general test progress is written. This + log file is useful to get snapshot information about the test + run during execution. It can also be very helpful when + analyzing test results or debugging test suites.</p> <p>On the test run index page it is noted if a test has missing suites (i.e. suites that Common Test has failed to compile). Names of the missing suites can be found in the - Common Test Framework log file.</p> + Common Test Framework Log file.</p> - <p>The major logfile shows a detailed report of the test run. It + <p>The major log file shows a detailed report of the test run. It includes test suite and test case names, execution time, the exact reason for failures etc. The information is available in both a file with textual and with HTML representation. The HTML file shows a @@ -1172,6 +1172,40 @@ <url href="http://tablesorter.com">tablesorter</url> plugin, with customized sorting functions, for this implementation.</p> </section> + + <section> + <title>The Unexpected I/O Log</title> + <p>On the test suites overview page you find a link to the Unexpected I/O Log. + In this log, Common Test saves printouts made with + <c>ct:log/2</c> and <c>ct:pal/2</c>, as well as captured system error- and + progress reports, that cannot be associated with particular test cases and + therefore cannot be written to individual test case log files. This happens e.g. + if a log printout is made from an external process (not a test case process), + or if an error- or progress report comes in, during a short interval while Common + Test is not executing a test case or configuration function, <em>or</em> while + Common Test is currently executing a parallell test case group.</p> + </section> + + <section> + <marker id="pre_post_test_io_log"></marker> + <title>The Pre- and Post Test I/O Log</title> + <p>On the Common Test Framework Log page you find links to the so called + Pre- and Post Test I/O Log. In this log, Common Test saves printouts made with + <c>ct:log/2</c> and <c>ct:pal/2</c>, as well as captured system error- + and progress reports, that take place before - and after - the actual test run. + Examples of this are printouts from a CT hook init- or terminate function, or + progress reports generated when an OTP application is started from a CT hook + init function. Another example is an error report generated due to + a failure when an external application is stopped from a CT hook terminate function. + All information in these examples ends up in the Pre- and Post Test I/O Log. + For more information on how to synchronize test runs with external user + applications, please see the + <seealso marker="ct_hooks_chapter#synchronizing">Synchronizing</seealso> + section in the Common Test Hooks chapter.</p> + <p>Note that logging to file with <c>ct:log/2</c> or <c>ct:pal/2</c> + only works when Common Test is running. Printouts with <c>ct:pal/2</c> + are however always displayed on screen.</p> + </section> </section> <section> |