Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Adam Kennedy
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-23 01:40]: And XML was designed for, and still remains VERY good at, doing neutral format data interchange. Another option if you want a lightweight format for structured data is JSON. XML is very nice for documents, particularl

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-23 01:40]: > And XML was designed for, and still remains VERY good at, doing > neutral format data interchange. Another option if you want a lightweight format for structured data is JSON. XML is very nice for documents, particularly with mixed content;

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Adam Kennedy
Do you still think that YAML is a good intermediate format choice? Do you think an integration with other standard utilities to produce YAML would be possible (prove, etc)? YAML has a few ... issues. :/ I've laid them out before at http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/YAML Brian has said that the

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Stevan Little
Michael, On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Michael Peters wrote: Stevan Little wrote: Michael, You might want to look at some of the work on the Pugs test suite. http://m19s28.vlinux.de/cgi-bin/pugs-smokeserv.pl It uses (among other things) Test::TAP::Model and Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix, and uses YAM

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Peters
Stevan Little wrote: > Michael, > > You might want to look at some of the work on the Pugs test suite. > > http://m19s28.vlinux.de/cgi-bin/pugs-smokeserv.pl > > It uses (among other things) Test::TAP::Model and > Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix, and uses YAML as an intermediate test-run format. Actual

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Peters
Adam Kennedy wrote: > Michael > > There's existing work happening in this area you may want to get > involved in. We even have a draft XML schema that does exactly what you > are talking about. > > Go read http://ali.as/pita/ Definitely an interesting project. It is much wider in scope than my

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Stevan Little
Michael, You might want to look at some of the work on the Pugs test suite. http://m19s28.vlinux.de/cgi-bin/pugs-smokeserv.pl It uses (among other things) Test::TAP::Model and Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix, and uses YAML as an intermediate test-run format. Stevan On Nov 22, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Mi

Re: TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Adam Kennedy
Michael There's existing work happening in this area you may want to get involved in. We even have a draft XML schema that does exactly what you are talking about. Go read http://ali.as/pita/ Then come hang out on irc://irc.perl.org/#pita Adam K Michael Peters wrote: Hello all, I'm in th

TAP as XML

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Peters
Hello all, I'm in the planning stages for a project (brief planning notes http://examples.petersfamily.org/smolder.html if interested) that will be used to collect test reports for project and make them viewable on the web. I want to change as little about the way they run their tests, but still

Re: Passing a parameter to test files

2005-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks for the help! I think using the environment variable is a really easy way to achieve my goal. thanks again, michael

Re: Problem with perl code - coverage during build

2005-11-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Selon Dharmesh Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Group, > > I am trying to test the perl component and find the code coverage for the > same.I have wrote a parser that analyses the generated perl test log files. > I am using the version 5.8.7 of perl. I am trying to do the code coverage > using bu

Re: Passing a parameter to test files

2005-11-22 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-22 10:10]: > I haven't found a way to do this with Test::Harness or > Test::TAP as they currently are. You could take the id from either the commandline or an environment variable. Then you could run the harness as something like TEST_DB_ID=42

Re: Passing a parameter to test files

2005-11-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 01:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to find a way to combine the functionality of > Test::Harness with testing scripts that take a parameter. > Here is my situation: I am trying to test a database configuration for > one specific ID. This ID

Passing a parameter to test files

2005-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I have been trying to find a way to combine the functionality of Test::Harness with testing scripts that take a parameter. Here is my situation: I am trying to test a database configuration for one specific ID. This ID is essentially part of primary key for several tables and we would like

Problem with perl code - coverage during build

2005-11-22 Thread Dharmesh Vyas
Hello Group, I am trying to test the perl component and find the code coverage for the same.I have wrote a parser that analyses the generated perl test log files. I am using the version 5.8.7 of perl. I am trying to do the code coverage using bullseye. But while I am trying to build the component