Reorder Apex test result sections so most important info is at bottom of terminal window

[dschach]

As a developer, I want to know easily if ANY of my Apex tests fail when running tests via the VSCode command palette so that I can quickly decide how to proceed.

Current Output

THe three sections (top to bottom) when invoking Apex tests from the command palette in VSCode:

1. Test Summary
2. List All Tests
3. Apex Code Coverage by Class
   This means that I have no quick way to find if the overall outcome is Passed/Failed without a lot of scrolling.

Suggested Output

Because the output is in a terminal window, the most important information should be at the BOTTOM so there is no need to scroll up.

TOP: List All Tests
MIDDLE: Apex Code Coverage by Class
BOTTOM (can be seen without scrolling): Test Summary

[k-capehart]

@dschach I completely agree. It has always annoyed me that I have to scroll up to the top of the output when I run tests. I was able to make this change here: forcedotcom/salesforcedx-apex#377

Someone from Salesforce can let us know if there are considerations that we haven't though of, since this code is in the apex node library.

[daveespo]

IMO, this feature suggestion only addresses a narrow portion of what's problematic with the human-readable output form apex:test:execute -- forcedotcom/salesforcedx-apex#243 has gone without love for a few years now -- I don't see any good reason why thousands of lines of "PASSING" test output should be displayed

[k-capehart]

You're right, I came across your issue while I was researching this. It's a bit of a bigger effort, but there might be some ways to improve it incrementally. The entire massive output is almost completely unnecessary.

[k-capehart]

@daveespo I've actually just updated the PR to add a parameter to optionally skip outputting the successful tests. I had some time to implement it. If it gets merged, then the next step would be to add a verbose (or concise) flag to the cli command to pass it on to the format function, whichever gets approved by someone over at Salesforce.

[daveespo]

Excellent .. you probably saw I posted over on the forcedotcom/salesforcedx-apex#243 to see if we can get this pain point relieved once and for all. Nice work. :-)

[k-capehart]

@dschach This has actually been done now for a couple releases. The latest version of the cli will now display the test result summary at the bottom of the output when running apex test run.

The other topics mentioned are pending a PR merge (salesforcecli/plugin-apex#504) and are being tracked in this issue: forcedotcom/salesforcedx-apex#243

So we're probably free to close this post 🚀