Suggestion: use TAP output format

[jasonkarns]

TAP output is a cross platform format for emitting “test” results that is simple to emit and simple to parse. It has wide support across many language platforms. It also has the benefit of being a “baseline” output format because there are many tools that can convert TAP o other formats. As such, the ability to emit TAP then makes it trivial to pipe hurl to other tools to covert the out into the format of their choice (without hurl needing to support dozens of different formatters)

http://testanything.org/

[fabricereix]

Hello @jasonkarns,
It could be indeed a good output format for Hurl tests. It seems suited for command-line apps.
Do you have any samples input Hurl file/TAP expected output?
Thanks

[fourjay]

FWIW, here's a web page devoted to TAP
https://testanything.org/
There's a "typical" output example on the root page.
There's also a full spec
https://testanything.org/tap-version-14-specification.html

quick description from memory:
first line is number of tests (in FN..LN format)
Then each test reports one line per test (if successful)
OK or not OK
test number
dash
description.

It'd probably be reasonable to have a description field as part of the hurl DSL.
That seems a reasonable step anyways.
I do not think the description is required,
but it could make the reporting a lot more useful, and not just here
It also creates a hook for "self documenting" tests

[jasonkarns]

slick! 🚀