report - shell module for test reporting. load test

report severity verbosity message[...]

Its is a loadable module for sh (1) that provides a simple error reporting facility for tests which can be run by itest (1) . It provides one command, report , which is used by a test to report a message with specified severity and verbosity. Severity must be one of INF, WRN, ERR or FTL for Information, warnings, errors and fatal errors respectively. Verbosity is an integer between 0 and 9. For informatory messages (severity INF), the message will only be displayed if the current verbosity level is greater than or equal to verbosity. .EX #!/dis/sh load std test echo 1 > /tmp/a echo 2 >/tmp/b report INF 5 testing cmp command if {cmp /tmp/a /tmp/b} { report ERR 0 'cmp failed - reported different files as the same' }{ report INF 6 'cmp ok - reported different files as different' } itest (1)