Oops, okay. That makes sense. Thanks again for the advice everyone. I appreciate it a lot. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Taylor Rose (RIT Student) <<a href="mailto:tjr1351@rit.edu">tjr1351@rit.edu</a>> wrote: > James, > > using sugar-launch, do you think I could get a hold of any output the > activity writes to stdout? I've been thinking that maybe I could have a test > mode where the activity would run tests internally and report the results to > stdout. The test program would just parse the output then... </div>I think this is what Rafael was trying to suggest. Most activities write diagnostic info to a log file. This output can be parsed. (It is found in .sugar/default/logs -walter <div class="im HOEnZb">> > -Taylor > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >> >> I have not seen any activity with unit tests. >> >> I have seen and maintained Python code with tests that are implemented >> as conditional blocks at the end of each source file except the main >> source file. These conditional blocks are predicated on execution of >> the file alone, and not on import. The main source file was in the >> directory above, with all the imported files in a directory below. >> >> So running the tests was: >> >> for x in directory/*/py; do python $x; done >> >> However, since most source files in a Sugar activity tend to depend on >> GTK+ or Sugar, this approach is not as useful. This approach can be >> used for the model third of the model view controller style. >> >> Taylor, sugar-launch can be used to launch an activity in a testing >> environment, but scripted control of the launched activity is your next >> challenge. >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> <a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a> > > > </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > </div></div>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote></div>