On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 3:59 PM Rae Moar rmoar@google.com wrote:
Add recognition of the test name line ("# Subtest: <name>") to the KTAP v2 spec.
The purpose of this line is to declare the name of a test before its results. This functionality is especially useful when trying to parse test results incrementally and when interpretting results after a crash.
This line is already compliant with KTAP v1 as it is interpretted as a
minor nit for if there's a v2, s/interprett/interpret (here and above)
Also, I want to elaborate on the previous paragraph a bit more, in case the motivation isn't clear. The problem with TAP and KTAP as-is is that the name of a test case is only known *after* it completes.
So the scenario being referred to is
KTAP version 1 1..1 <lots of output> <kernel crash, no more output>
It would be nice if parsers could report "test FOO caused a crash" as opposed to "the first test case caused a crash, good luck figuring out which one that was"
Daniel