[Scons-dev] Does SCons test support negative tests?

[William Blevins]

This is one section I would like to have in the announcement for developers
because this allows for test encapsulation.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:57 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I added the functionality for (1) in the CL-patch since I wanted to look
> for contents without haven't to include stdout of unrelated information.
>
> V/R,
> William
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> For this test I ended up just having the full expected output, in this
>>> case I effectively checked for the output not being there.
>>> It worked for the negative case because the output is pretty short.
>>>
>>> Can you use must_not_contain on stdout?
>>> I'm thinking our test framework docs are pretty sparse.
>>>
>>
>> There's a _small_ amount in the wiki, at
>> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/TestingMethodology/QMTestMethods
>>  and
>> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/TestingMethodology.
>> The README in the QMTest dir is not all that helpful; that'd be a good
>> place for some of this IMHO.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gary
>>
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