testcase format regarding expected results

[Kamil Paral]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:48 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  I think there are cases where each works better, there's no harm
> in
>  supporting both.
>  
So, I have hijacked Geoff's thread, because I didn't expect there to be a
discussion about it (or more than 5 extra minutes of work). Sorry about
that. I'm creating a separate thread about it.

Adam, can you please demonstrate a case where it's better to put all
expected results at the bottom, instead of showing them right after the
relevant test action? Because I can't think of any.

Having a new template for testcases showing expected results right after
relevant steps sounds ok, but I have trouble imagining how it should look
like. How is it different from the current template, except that "Expected
Results" section might be empty (that can be easily adjusted in the current
template)?

My long standing experience is that our testcase template is annoying to
work with. Because it's a template, some things break (like using '|' pipe
characters, and some other things I occasionally hit but don't remember
now) and it's just overall harder to understand the syntax. All that for
having standardized section titles. That seems like very little gain and
could easily be done completely without a template - we haven't changed
those titles in... probably never. If we think about a new template,
perhaps we could decide to do it without a template completely? I'd
certainly be in favor.