Ovid wrote:
> --shuffle will shuffle the order in which the tests are run to ensure that
> you have no accidental dependency on test order.
>
> --fast sets and environment variable that can be checked in the test scripts.
> For example, if you have a couple of tests that double the time of your test
> run and you want a fast check of integrity, you can put this in your code:
>
> SKIP: {
> skip 'Fast Tests', 1 if $ENV{FAST_TESTS};
> ok( really_long_running_function(), '... successfully kills time');
> }
Erm, am I the only one to take Merlyn seriously?
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.qa/1932
Well, that's what google tells me (unsurprisingly, zero people took my
PERL_TEST_LONG suggestion seriously).
Instead of FAST_TESTS, may I humbly suggest something like PERL_TEST_FAST,
the point being that environment variables share the global name space.
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