Are you being overwhelmed by test output w/ diagnostic messages enabled?

[bradwilson]

We recently fixed an issue where sometimes configuration settings were not being properly propagated, and one off-shoot of fixing that issue is what this question is about. So I'd like to ping the community to get a sense of how widespread this issue is.

If you:

• Use test output extensively (via ITestOutputHelper)
• Enable diagnostic messages

Have you noticed that you are now seeing output messages from their passing tests that never showed before? Has this been an issue?

Based on some discussion from the .NET Team, we have decided in v2 to add an environment variable (XUNIT_HIDE_PASSING_OUTPUT_DIAGNOSTICS) that can turn this behavior off. We added this as an environment variable in v2 because we weren't sure that this was a problem large enough to surface as a new configuration file setting.

So that's the purpose of this discussion question:

Are you having this problem? If so, is it significant enough to warrant surfacing this as a configuration file item to turn it off and on, vs. the existing environment variable override?