Problem with running lots of tests (I think)

2011-10-31 Thread Buddy Burden
Guys, Okay, so I found a bug in this test script for a module I recently took over. It's a test that generates random times, and it would fail for zero seconds. But it only happened every once in a while, since zero was only one possible value and it was only running a small(ish) number of

Re: Problem with running lots of tests (I think)

2011-10-31 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Buddy Burden barefootco...@gmail.com wrote: t/rand_time.t (Wstat: 9 Tests: 1764021 Failed: 0) Non-zero wait status: 9 *** Signal 9 That one is obvious, it has been SIGKILLed. Probably the tester thought the tests were hanging. t/rand_time.t

Re: Problem with running lots of tests (I think)

2011-10-31 Thread Buddy Burden
Leon, *** Signal 9 That one is obvious, it has been SIGKILLed. Probably the tester thought the tests were hanging. Well, that's probably the most common error ... surely there can't be _that_ many CPAN Testers folks hanging around actually _watching_ the tests run and killing them when they

Re: Do we need subtests in TAP?

2011-10-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2011.10.30 11:15 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Michael G Schwern # on Sunday 30 October 2011 20:30: The current Test::Builder implementation is a mess and its design cannot go forward. They have to be gotten just right to ensure that not just nested TAP is supported, but nesting in