Bernhard Schussek
With the release of symfony 1.3.5 and 1.4.5, the testing library lime was updated to version 1.0.9. Apart from smaller bug fixes, this version features improved error reporting for exceptions, warning and notice errors.
Exception Reporting
Before this update lime used to present many failing tests as "dubious". This status indicated that PHP was interrupted in the test, for example because an exception was thrown or because of a segmentation fault. Unfortunately, "dubious" doesn't help a lot to inform about the real problem.
lime now tries to catch exceptions thrown in your code. When you run your test suite, these exception messages are included in the output. Such tests are now marked clearly with the label "errors".
PHP Warnings and Notices
lime is now also able to catch PHP warning and notice errors. Before this update, such errors were silently ignored. Your tests were marked as successful even though there might have been a load of errors!
To fix this critical problem, we added the option "error_reporting" to the
class lime_test. When you set this option to true, these PHP errors are
caught and clearly highlighted in the test output.
$t = new lime_test(7, array('error_reporting' => true)); ...
They are also included in the output of the test suite.
For backwards compatibility reasons, the default value for this option remains
false. We highly recommend though to set it to true in all of your test
scripts to prevent unnoticed errors.
This is great news! Thanks for including this in the update.
Even though I was always amused by the word "dubious" getting thrown around in my test results, this will be very helpful.
Thanks! This will make my life much easier!