Whoops. Forgot to send this back to the list. --- Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 02:52:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: "Really" Test Anything > To: Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have nothing useful to contribute - but I just feel the need to > say > > huzzah and thank you for TAPx::Parser. Looks jolly fun for the next > > > time I need to fiddle with TAP! > > Thank you. You can also read http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/32063 > for more details of my thoughts of working with the --exec switch. > > Also, I've already been contacted by someone working on a project > with > tests written in multiple languages and they need my code to already > be > written, so I'm going to try to get it out the door as soon as I can. > > > Oh - actually - I have thought of something :-) > > > > Something that I've wanted in the past is a way to merge TAP > streams > > together. So I could take these: > > > > 1..2 > > ok 1 - foo the first > > ok 2 - foo the second > > > > 1..2 > > ok 1 - bar the first > > ok 2 - bar the second > > > > and produce something like > > > > 1..4 > > ok 1 - foo the first > > ok 2 - bar the first > > ok 3 - bar the second > > ok 4 - foo the second > > > > The reason I wanted it was so that I could merge the results of > tests > > > I was running on a distributed set of machines (for purposes of > > speed) together and present the results as soon as they were ready. > > > In the end I ended up hacking something together that merged whole > > > test runs, rather than individual tests because that was easy(ier) > > One feature of 'runtests' which is already implemented is to be able > to > specify a different test harness, so you could do: > > runtests --harness TAPx::Harness::MergeStreams \ > --exec 'run_distributed_tests' < list_of_servers.txt > > And with something like that, you could then have a text file with > the > servers you want to run tests on, a program called > 'run_distributed_tests' which would know how to run the tests on each > server and TAPx::Harness::MergeStreams would just have to know how to > merge the test streams. It's a bit of work, but I don't think it > would > be too hard. I just need to finish the --exec functionality and get > my > current harness to mimic the output of Test::Harness as much as is > feasible. > > Cheers, > Ovid > > -- > > Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ > -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
