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

[William Blevins]

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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