Make run-tests.sh better behaved with error_log()

Created on 29 September 2016, almost 9 years ago

Updated 14 August 2025, about 9 hours ago

Problem/Motivation

This issue is mainly a cleanup, follow-through type of issue after spending a little while figuring out #2807271: run-tests.sh needs to output an exception to stderr for the testbot → .

run-tests.sh does a lot of work catching exceptions so it can return one of its exit constants. That's good, except that it doesn't output anything to stderr, which could lead to situations where the user never sees error messages because they were piped away.

Proposed resolution

Figure out if this matters.
If it does, add error_log() calls where appropriate.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

simpletest.module

Created by

🇺🇸United States mile23 Seattle, WA

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Testing system

run-tests.sh

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Comment about 9 hours ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

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