# from Michael G Schwern
# on Monday 16 March 2009 11:47:
>I suppose what really covers their ass is that by being broken up into
> test_* routines each test function is isolated and their code is
> simpler and less likely to have a logic error that results in a test
> never being run.
Why is it that whenever plans come up, we hear all about the checksum
aspect, but never talk about the 'progress bar'? If you're running
someone else's test suite, it is very nice to have some idea of how
much has completed. Yes, that has caveats, but so does everything.
And on a related note: TAP allowing something where subplans are
uncounted, but the toplevel plan is, would be nice. That is, say a
test has 20 'groups' of whatever-number subtests. The groups could be
easily counted (even automatically in some structures). This takes you
to one step finer granularity than "half of the test scripts are
complete".
--Eric
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