Editing Automatic Testing (section)

===2. Run the examples===
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sfbooklist size=1024 list=filter skipfile=admin/skiplist.txt timer=file command="scons >scons.log 2>&1" book</syntaxhighlight>

Step 2 is the same as Step 1 except I also specify a command string to run in each directory.  The command string runs <tt>scons</tt> to update the examples and capture the console output in log files.  There is also an option '''timer=file''' which appends a single line execution-time summary to a .rsftimer file in each directory.  The other options for timer are <tt>none</tt> and <tt>log</tt> which sends the summary to the console instead of a file.

The output at the end of this step will include a count of how many examples failed.  I usually capture the output of this step into a file and grep it for "error" to see which examples crashed.  Then I can look at the corresponding scons.log file to see what happened, or just cd to the directory and run scons manually to see it happen again.