bug#47320: Improve failure reporting in test/lisp/electrict-tests.el

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello again, João.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 14:02:58 +0000, João Távora wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 1:46 PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> > I'm having some difficulty getting my head around the "explanation"
> > functionality of ert, which leans me towards my initial plan.

> > Here's the patch (actually written quite a long time ago) I would like to
> > merge into electric-tests.el:

> As far as I understand, this just stores the big explanation string in
> a variable, and uses it both for putting into the `ert-deftest` 's docstring
> as well as for logging with message(), right?  If so, it's fine to add.

> Maybe you could leverage `ert-fail` instead of checking the test's
> main assertion twice, once in should, and once when deciding
> whether to log.

In the end, I couldn't get that to work - the handler for the signal, in
outputting the doc string, replaced all the \n's with the octal
read-syntax, "\\12".  This left the text readable only with effort.

> I'd say, just check it once and put both logging and `ert-fail` inside the if.

I just committed the patch as it was.  Sorry.

> João

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