"Christoph" <christoph.duelli@gmx.de> wrote in message news:ej545p$v75$1@sea.gmane.org...
Hi,
I am experimenting with the Boost.Test framework. I have stumbled upon the exit code of the test program. I have not found the documentation on the exit code (maybe I have overlooked it) and am somewhat baffled how to interpret it:
Check http://www.boost.org/libs/test/doc/components/utf/index.html at the end of Usage section
i) what is the semantic of the exit code? It seems to be 0 when all tests are passed (as expected), but I get 201 if some tests fail. What does 201 mean? Are there further possibilities?
Check boost/cstdlib.hpp for Rationale
ii) is it possible have the exit code return the number of failed test cases?
No. There are many different scenarios and this value maybe invalid/misleading. To get the number of failed test cases you could either grep report output or make report in XML format and use any number of XML processing tools.
Thank you Christoph
Gennadiy