2 questions about Galaxy's functional testing support
Hi all, I've read the Wiki page on Writing Functional Tests (http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Tools/Writing%20Tests) and I've been looking through test/base and test/functional and I am left with two questions: * Is it possible to write a test to validate metadata directly on an (optionally composite) output dataset? Everything described on the above page is file oriented. I see that there is TwillTestCase.check_metadata_for_string, but as far as I can tell this is a bit nonspecific since it appears to just do a text search on the Edit page. I don't yet fully understand the context in which tests run, but is there some way to access a "live" dataset's metadata directly, either as a dictionary or just as attributes? Or even to get the actual dataset object? * Does the test harness support retaining output files only for failed tests? Ideally with a cap on how much output data to save. If not, would this be difficult to configure? Thanks, Eric
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Paniagua, Eric