Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Improving Cabal's Test Support

Richard G. schrieb:

I think that formatted plain-text output would be much better than XML, something that is human-readable and relatively easy to parse via machine. Something similar to the GHC error output would work well because developers are familiar with it.

Test <n>:<Result> <Location> <Error message>

E.g.,

Test 1:Passed src/Some/File.hs:23

Test 2:Failed src/Some/File.hs:27 Expecting `4'; received `5'.

Test 3:Error src/Some/OtherFile.hs:39

This is the format Emacs parses and lets you jump right to the according file and position.

Unexpected exception.

This would keep the complexity low in Cabal and allow for easy transformation to XML.