Build Your Own Test Framework: A Practical Guide to Writing Better Automated Tests

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D. IrvineBuild Your Own Test Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9247-1_10

10. Reporting

Daniel Irvine¹  

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London, UK

 

Currently, the test runner’s reporting code is pretty fixed. There’s no way to configure it or switch it out. This might be a problem, for example, with sending output to a text file on a Continuous Integration (CI) environment, since text files don’t support ANSI escape codes.

In this chapter we’ll implement a system for supporting different output mechanisms for test reports. We’ll do this by writing a basic event dispatcher that will allow us to dispatch events to a reporter.

You’ll learn

• How the observer pattern can be applied to ...