TestCase location hint

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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Add locationHint field with location of the Test.

[madsager]

Could you provide more information on this bug? What are you trying to do? Example code and what you expect would be great.

Thanks.

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Added NeedsInfo label.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Sorry for delay. Being on vacation. I meant a hint with information about test/group method invocation location. For example information could contain the file URI and the line number. It useful for quick navigation to the test/group method invocation. Now it's only possible after a test fails and we can check the stack trace.

[anders-sandholm]

Added Area-Library, Triaged labels.

[sethladd]

CC'ing Gram as this is about Unit Test library.

CC'ing Devon because I think Dart Editor team would like to add a UNit test running to editor, and allow a user to run a single test and navigate to a single test.

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cc @gramster.
cc @devoncarew.

[gramster]

Groups can be nested, so you could just add an outer group to your tests with the file name...

[lrhn]

Removed Area-Library label.
Added Area-UnitTest label.

[kevmoo]

Added Pkg-Unittest label.

[kevmoo]

Removed Area-UnitTest label.
Added Area-Pkg label.

[pq]

The relevant bug on the IntelliJ side: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-1588

[pq]

The rub is that there is currently no way for tools to infer a source location from a TestCase unless the test failed. If the test has failed, there's a stack trace to parse. Not pretty but doable. No such luck in the passing case though. Where this comes into play is in a tool, such as WebStorm/IDEA or Eclipse/DartEditor, where you want to display a navigable test result view.

I'm optimistically bumping this to 1.4 in the hopes that we get "making unittest more tool-friendly" on the agenda as cleanup happens.

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cc @kevmoo.
Added this to the 1.4 milestone.

[kasperl]

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[kasperl]

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[kasperl]

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[kasperl]

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[DartBot]

This issue has been moved to dart-lang/test#150.