[PATCH] pytest: Shorten traceback length by default
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Wed Oct 6 04:18:00 CEST 2021
This produces a lot of code output which is not very helpful and is quite
annoying to wade through. Use the short format by default.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
doc/develop/py_testing.rst | 7 +++++++
test/py/test.py | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/develop/py_testing.rst b/doc/develop/py_testing.rst
index 4f1e1f66e76..52238ca54d3 100644
--- a/doc/develop/py_testing.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/py_testing.rst
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ will be written to `${build_dir}/test-log.html`. This is best viewed in a web
browser, but may be read directly as plain text, perhaps with the aid of the
`html2text` utility.
+Controlling output
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+By default a short backtrace is reported. If you would like a longer one,
+pass ``--tb=long`` when running the test. See the pytest documentation for
+more options.
+
Running tests in parallel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/test/py/test.py b/test/py/test.py
index 285fda54258..95859a66e29 100755
--- a/test/py/test.py
+++ b/test/py/test.py
@@ -17,4 +17,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
# argv; py.test test_directory_name user-supplied-arguments
args = [os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/tests']
args.extend(sys.argv)
+
+ # Use short format by default
+ if not [arg for arg in args if '--tb=' in arg]:
+ args.append('--tb=short')
+
sys.exit(pytest.main(args))
--
2.33.0.800.g4c38ced690-goog
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