On 8/17/12 3:53 PM, Mark Stosberg wrote:
In 2008 Alex Vandiver contributed a patch to "prove" that allowed you to specify that you wanted some tests to run in parallel and others in serial. This is a great feature for those of us with large test suites that would like to test advantage of parallism, but have suites that aren't 100% parallel-ready. I'm grateful that work was done. The feature was considered experimental, and was not documented in `prove`. From what I can tell it has remained largely undiscovered, and is still remains in the same state about 4 years later.
And it's not alone in being undocumented. Go to http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Test-Harness-3.25/lib/App/Prove.pm#Attributes and note that 'rules' is one of over 40 attributes which are described as existing but are otherwise undocumented.
However, I see that 'rules' is the subject of testing in t/scheduler.t. Do the individual tests in that file give you any clue as to how to proceed?
Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
