[qmtest] kudos, interface, examples

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Thursday, December 12, 2002 04:37:50 PM -0500 Mark Eichin 
<eichin at metacarta.com> wrote:

> First: as someone who worked with dejagnu for years (Cygnus employee
> #16 or so :-) I'm very happy to see something real in this space.
> I've been encouraging my coworkers to read the qmtest manual just
> because you got the *definitions* right, and have the clearest
> expression of the problem that I've yet seen...

Thanks for the compliments.

> Next: Has anyone worked out tweaks to run the user interface without
> javascript?

No -- but it shouldn't be hard.  The JavaScript isn't that sophisticated;
as you say, working out the menus is the biggest bit.  There are probably
a couple of other places where forms get filled in with some JavaScript
bits, and things like the pop-up help windows, but you could probably
get by without these.

You know the song I'm about so sing as an ex-Cygnus person, but I'll
sing it anyhow: we'd be happy to provide this or other customizations
and enhancements, provide support, or otherwise assist you in solving
your testing problems.

> where they go.  I'm doing separate syntax checking of the module,
> classes.qmc is fine, the gui sees the class and lets me create a
> resource from it, but at run time all I get is "Setup of a required
> resource failed."

When a test/resource throws an exception, the output should indicate that
and show a traceback.

I see that this works much better at the command-line than from the
GUI; in the GUI no information about the failing resource is presented.
In the command-line interface, a full trace-back is provided.  I've
added this enhancement near the top of our TODO list.  Your use of PDB
is a good work-around.

We've also found a bug in QMTest 2.0 whereby the "New Resource" command
on the GUI doesn't work; that will be corrected very shortly.  (This bug
is already fixed in CVS, but we have to respin the binaries.)

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