When using decorator @OETestDepends([<test-case-not-foud>]) the output is not really helpful a lot of information is displayed including all possible test cases available, one posible solution is to add format to the output to show the list of test cases or just show the error message and store all other information in a log. === Current Output Example === Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/scripts/oe-selftest", line 70, in <module> ret = main() File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/scripts/oe-selftest", line 57, in main results = args.func(logger, args) File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py", line 253, in run rc = self._internal_run(logger, args) File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py", line 205, in _internal_run self.tc.loadTests(self.module_paths, **self.tc_kwargs['load']) File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/core/context.py", line 59, in loadTests self.suites = self.loader.discover() File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/core/loader.py", line 315, in discover cases = clss.discover(self.tc._registry) File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/depends.py", line 94, in discover _validate_test_case_depends(registry['cases'], registry['depends']) File "/home/jgperezc/poky-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/depends.py", line 39, in _validate_test_case_depends ", cases available %s." % (case, dep, str(cases.keys()))) oeqa.core.exception.OEQADependency: TestCase devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export depends on devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_import and isn't available, cases available KeysView(OrderedDict([('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_create_workspace', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_create_workspace>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add_fetch', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add_fetch>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add_fetch_git', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add_fetch_git>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add_fetch_simple', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add_fetch_simple>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add_git_local', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add_git_local>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_add_library', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_add_library>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_build_image', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_build_image>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_buildclean', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_buildclean>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_deploy_target', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_deploy_target>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_export>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export_exclude_all', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_export_exclude_all>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export_exclude_specific_file', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_export_exclude_specific_file>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export_include', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_export_include>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_export_overwrite_file', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_export_overwrite_file>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_extract', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_extract>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_extract_virtual', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_extract_virtual>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_finish_modify_origlayer', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_finish_modify_origlayer>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_finish_modify_otherlayer', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_finish_modify_otherlayer>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_finish_upgrade_origlayer', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_finish_upgrade_origlayer>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_finish_upgrade_otherlayer', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_finish_upgrade_otherlayer>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_layer_plugins', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_layer_plugins>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_load_plugin', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_load_plugin>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify_git', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify_git>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify_invalid', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify_invalid>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify_localfiles', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify_localfiles>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify_native', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify_native>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_modify_virtual', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_modify_virtual>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_rename', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_rename>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_reset_all', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_reset_all>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_append', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_append>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_append_git', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_append_git>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_git', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_git>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_2', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_2>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_3', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_3>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_subdir', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_subdir>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_update_recipe_local_patch_gz', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_update_recipe_local_patch_gz>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_upgrade', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_upgrade>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_upgrade_git', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_upgrade_git>), ('devtool.DevtoolTests.test_devtool_virtual_kernel_modify', <devtool.DevtoolTests testMethod=test_devtool_virtual_kernel_modify>)])).
The codebase had changed that it was no longer output large amount of possible test cases available. Example: if test dependency not available, it will output concise error message below. Exception: oeqa.core.exception.OEQADependency: TestCase cyclictest.CyclicTest.test_cyclic depends on libipt.LibiptTest.test_libipt_can_generate_trace_packetXX and isn't available, cases available odict_keys(['ping.PingTest.test_ping', 'ssh.SSHTest.test_ssh', 'cyclictest.CyclicTest.test_cyclic']). ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /data/eyeoh7/tmp/poky_qa/build-image-sato-sdk-meta-intel/tmp/work/intel_corei7_64-poky-linux/core-image-rt/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_testimage.49189 ERROR: Task (/data/eyeoh7/repo/meta-intel/recipes-rt/images/core-image-rt.bb:do_testimage) failed with exit code '1'