# Improve test failures output to make it more readable
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747 "2019-11-05T13:16:18Z")
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### Author:  [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747/1 "2019-11-05T13:16:18Z")
Is any effort being undertaken to better format the output of test failures?
For instance, I get something like:
```julia
Evaluated: "Genie test" == "Genie test"
```
This makes it very hard to see the differences, and it would be much better to format it as:
```julia
Expected: "Genie test"
Result: "Genie test"
```
P.S. visual diffing would be even better though too ambitious for a quick fix, something in the line of `git diff`:
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747/2 "2019-11-05T13:18:35Z")
> [@essenciary](#):
>
> P.S. visual diffing would be even better though too ambitious for a quick fix, something in the line of `git diff` :
[GitHub - ssfrr/TestSetExtensions.jl: Extensions to Julia's Base.Test](https://github.com/ssfrr/TestSetExtensions.jl) did this but I think some changes to the Test module broke it.
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### Author:  [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747/3 "2019-11-05T13:23:19Z")
That looks awesome - definitely worth taking a look at, maybe I can make it work. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@essenciary](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/essenciary)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747/4 "2019-11-08T08:21:27Z")
OK, I managed to upgrade it to run on Julia v1, all tests passing.
Fork here:
[https://github.com/essenciary/TestSetExtensions.jl/tree/julia\_v1](https://github.com/essenciary/TestSetExtensions.jl/tree/julia_v1)
I’ve also made a pull request 🤞🏻
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improve-test-failures-output-to-make-it-more-readable/30747/5 "2019-11-08T09:56:18Z")
Any chance TestSetExtensions.jl become the default Test? It is really convenient to have tests highlighted, and also be able to choose a subset of test sets to run. Really nice package, thanks for sharing.