Index: src/tests/test.py
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--- src/tests/test.py	(revision 911348cd2ef4d7f3e629b98e229290ec3cb7b894)
+++ src/tests/test.py	(revision 52c97dd0bd8fd5815b0e6cbdeaa224d1ebc6f269)
@@ -181,6 +181,5 @@
 	for t in tests:
 		# print formated name
-		print("%20s  " % t.name, end="")
-		sys.stdout.flush()
+		name_txt = "%20s  " % t.name
 
 		#run the test instance and collect the result
@@ -199,7 +198,11 @@
 
 		#print result with error if needed
-		print(failed_txt if test_failed else success_txt)
+		text = name_txt + (failed_txt if test_failed else success_txt)
+		out = sys.stdout
 		if error :
-			print(error, file=sys.stderr)
+			text = text + "\n" + error
+			out = sys.stderr
+
+		print(text, file = out);
 
 	#clean the workspace
@@ -217,5 +220,5 @@
 parser.add_argument('--all', help='Run all test available', action='store_true')
 parser.add_argument('--regenerate-expected', help='Regenerate the .expect by running the specified tets, can be used with --all option', action='store_true')
-parser.add_argument('-j', '--jobs', help='Number of tests to run simultaneously', type=int, default='1')
+parser.add_argument('-j', '--jobs', help='Number of tests to run simultaneously', type=int, default='8')
 parser.add_argument('tests', metavar='test', type=str, nargs='*', help='a list of tests to run')
 
@@ -266,7 +269,7 @@
 # check if the user already passed in a number of jobs for multi-threading
 make_flags = environ.get('MAKEFLAGS')
-make_has_max_jobs = make_flags and "-j" in make_flags
-make_max_jobs = re.search("(-j|--jobs)\s*([0-9]+)", make_flags).group(2) if make_has_max_jobs else None
-make_cmd = "make" if make_has_max_jobs else "make -j8"
+make_has_max_jobs = re.search("(-j|--jobs)\s*([0-9]+)", make_flags) if make_flags else None
+make_max_jobs = make_has_max_jobs.group(2) if make_has_max_jobs else None
+make_cmd = "make" if make_flags and "-j" in make_flags else "make -j8"
 
 # make sure we have a valid number of jobs that corresponds to user input
@@ -276,5 +279,4 @@
 	sys.exit(1)
 
-
 # users may want to simply list the tests
 if options.list :
@@ -283,3 +285,3 @@
 else :
 	# otherwise run all tests and make sure to return the correct error code
-	sys.exit( run_tests(tests, options.regenerate_expected, options.dry_run) )
+	sys.exit( run_tests(tests, options.regenerate_expected, options.dry_run, options.jobs) )