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Boost test junit output violates schema

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start with the JUnit results formatter and inspect how XML attributes such as time are serialized. Reproduce the schema or Bazel parsing failure, then verify that generated time values conform to the JUnit schema's xs:decimal format without scientific notation.

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Description

When using the junit results formatter, the XML attributes like time use default float ostream formatting which uses scientific notation at times. However the junit schema says time is xs:decimal and scientific notation is not valid xs:decimal.

I suggest that boost uses fixed formatting instead.

Among other things this means boost test results fail to be parsed by bazel.

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