Functional Tests and Plone 3.0

Martin Aspeli optilude at gmx.net
Sat Jul 14 22:52:36 UTC 2007


Derek Richardson wrote:
> Plone 3.0 has a pretty error page that hides error message details from users. 
> However, when I'm running functional tests, it make it difficult or impossible 
> to debug test failures. I get back an exception class name with the description 
> of the exception being the plone error page that doesn't tell me the actual 
> error message.
> 
> How have others solved this issue?

The ploneboard tests (and others) have some code which inspect the 
latest entry in error_log on error. That's quite useful, and gives you a 
plain-text traceback, not the full Plone HTML.

Martin

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