How to see the Status messages in DUnit GUI from all the test cases at once?

Question

You can use TAbstractTest.Status procedure to show some debug messages in DUnit GUI during your tests.

But when I run the group of tests, I can see only the status messages from the last executed test. Can I see the complete log somehow, without selecting each single test to run?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '12 at 09:09

I have used Status() method which will output the value when a failure occurs:

procedure Test.TestGetStringListQueryValuesException;
var
  ReturnValue: TList<String>;
  item: String;
begin
  ReturnValue := FTest.GetStringListQueryValues;
  try
    for item in ReturnValue do
    begin
      Status('Value Processed: ' + item);
      CheckTrue(Pos('B', item) > 0, 'Wrong Value, Expected Item containing ''B'' but found: ' + item);
    end;
  finally
    ReturnValue.Free;
  end;
end;

The result of that is somethig like this:

TestGetIntegerListQueryValuesException: ETestFailure
at  $0050B842
Wrong Value, Expected > 50 and < 60 but found: 61, expected: <True> but was: <False>

Status Messages
Value Processed: 52
Value Processed: 54
Value Processed: 55
Value Processed: 58
Value Processed: 59
Value Processed: 61

It is really useful to identify what went wrong during the test. I haven't tried the SetStatusListener() but I think it should be the correct way if we want to show logging when a test has succeeded.

I would like to mimic the same behaviour as per Nunit where you can log customised messages on the output section.

Any better ideas?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '12 at 13:52

The DUnit source code uses a IStatusListener interface and a public method

procedure TAbstractTest.SetStatusListener(Listener: IStatusListener);

which could be overriden to use a new implementation in your test classes. I have not tried it but it could be the cleanest solution.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 09 '13 at 11:30

First write a new procedure

   procedure Log(text: string);
   begin
      LogStringList.Add(text);
      Status(text);
   end;

the replace all status() to Log(). And create a new test at the end of al tests

   procedure TestXXX.ShowLog;
   begin
      Status(LogStringList.Text);
      LogStringList.Clear;
   end;

you have to create LogStringList: TStringList in the initialization block of your test-unit.

How to see the Status messages in DUnit GUI from all the test cases at once?

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