subunit-trace provides no real-time status

[Federico Ceratto]

Most testing tools provide configurable progress status e.g.:

Run with -v -v: print one dot "." for each test
Run with -v -v -v: print the name of the test being started (rather than printing on completion)

This would be useful to quickly spot slow/hanging tests instead of waiting for global timeouts (that can be a high value on large test suites)

Thanks.

[Matthew Treinish (treinish)]

The beginnings of inprogress displaying was in the original version of subunit-trace but they never quite worked so we removed that code. You can still see it some of the copy and pasted copies that existed before it was made into a proper entrypoint, for example:

https://github.com/openstack/taskflow/blob/master/tools/subunit_trace.py#L36-L82

I can see the value in having something like this, but it's never shown to be a priority. I would not be opposed to someone taking another crack at it, but we'd need testing upfront to verify it works.