Advocate gotestsum for running go test

[afbjorklund]

Since it allows both progress and json, at the same time (not either / or).

It also has a default format that is more friendly on the eyes than go test.

$ gotestsum --jsonfile test_report.json

https://github.com/gotestyourself/gotestsum

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Main issue is recording the current date and execution time "somewhere"...

• Need (optional) parameter for test duration #21

Duration (should be the test execution time, not the report execution time)

testExecutionDate (should be the test executation date, not the current date)

[afbjorklund]

When GOTESTSUM_ELAPSED and GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE are picked up automatically, the invocation becomes just:

gotestsum --jsonfile test_report.json --post-run-command "go-test-report --output test_report.html"

• Export elapsed time to the post-run environment gotestyourself/gotestsum#360
• Add the time unit to elapsed time duration gotestyourself/gotestsum#363

[Victor-Chirinian-Vimeo]

@afbjorklund I saw the following PR :#62, that will allow users to specify the path to the test2json file produced by gotestsum, which is great! Currently I am running the invocation you shared above, which is dependent on the env vars being set, but I am still getting:

Error: ERROR: missing ≪ stdin ≫ pipe.

GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE I am manually setting before execution GOTESTSUM_ELAPSED is set by gotestsum itself.

[afbjorklund]

You should not have to set GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE, it should be exported by gotestsum when you use the --jsonfile parameter. There was a small change needed to the GOTESTSUM_ELAPSED variable, to add the "s" (for seconds)

$ gotestsum --jsonfile test_report.json --post-run-command env | grep GOTESTSUM
GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE=test_report.json
GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE_TIMING_EVENTS=
GOTESTSUM_JUNITFILE=
GOTESTSUM_ELAPSED=0.208s

Then what I did is to add two new parameters to go-test-report, and have them default to these environment variables. You can also specify them explicitly, like go-test-report -i test_report.json -e 0.208s, if not using post-run

$ go-test-report -i test_report.json -e 0.208s
[go-test-report] finished in 81.253371ms
$ grep Duration: test_report.html
        <span class="total"><span class="indicator">&boxbox;</span> Total: <strong>18</strong>Duration: <strong>208ms</strong>

[Victor-Chirinian-Vimeo]

@afbjorklund That is true, it is one or the other. I currently don't see any references to the GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE env var in master, which is likely why I am getting the stdin pipe error, unless I missed it while reviewing the code. Is that dependent on #62 getting merged ?

[afbjorklund]

You can do something like sh -c "go-test-report <$GOTESTSUM_JSONFILE" (or just hardcode the file), until it is...

https://github.com/vakenbolt/go-test-report/pull/62/files#diff-2873f79a86c0d8b3335cd7731b0ecf7dd4301eb19a82ef7a1cba7589b5252261R248

The only missing features are the testExecutionDate and the Duration, as mentioned.

[afbjorklund]

I think we want to the name the file something other than "test_report.json"