Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: [...]
[1] I've never had a need for random tests myself. The only reason I break mine apart is to isolate testing various sub-systems, but I almost always end up having some dependencies put into an early "00" file. I also tend to a have a final "99" cleanup file. While I could in theory have each file be independent, in practice it's a lot of duplicated code and a lot of time overhead, so it's either the 00-99 or (as I sometimes have done) one giant testing file.
Ah, then I suppose you have never considered the need to run a huge test suite in parallel on a multi-CPU box, where tests really are run at random (in relation to each other). 99 may complete before 00 has finished.
This is a big problem for the test suite of Perl itself. David
