Potential for tick / cross emoji?

[ceeK]

I recall seeing this on Twitter awhile back and thinking it was cool.

It can look cleaner to use emoji for the test results in the timeline:
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Just a thought!

[shaps80]

I considered this but in Playgrounds (particularly) on iPad I didn't want to have console output initially. So for me the 'traffic lights' are cleaner.

That said, I'm working on bringing in full Nimble atm -- so if it makes then I can imagine that being nice in the console output at least.

[ceeK]

What I mean is replacing the traffic light colours with emoji strings to remove the RGB values. So still traffic lights?

Unless there is a technical limitation why strings aren't possible of course (or at least worse).

Arguably this could be less confusing to the new user than displaying R: 100, G: 0, B: 0 for test results.

[shaps80]

Ah I see... I hate those particular emoji haha but maybe you're right. I'll look into that. Will also check that iPad produces the same result.

[ceeK]

If the demographic of iPad testing is to let people new to coding get into testing, the tick and cross could further reinforce the success / failure :)

Just a thought though!

[shaps80]

True. Although I hate those particular emoji's I also like that fact that these are unlikely to clash/cutter other output. E.g. if I am also outputting color values in my code. It can be somewhat confusing.

[ceeK]

For completeness I found my original inspiration for this ticket: https://github.com/Liquidsoul/XCTestPlayground

[shaps80]

Ok so @ceeK -- I don't like the clipping on those emoji so I've come up with an alternative.
I also think it brings MORE attention to failed tests and less attention to passing ones.
Thoughts?

[chrisamanse]

+1 on the emojis. It also has better accessibility (color blindness).

[shaps80]

The issue with this has been that iPad doesn't show the emoji's unfortunately – but I will definitely include this for the Xcode builds.