On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 13:31 +0200, Tom Eyckmans wrote:
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> 
> Some questions:
> - does anybody use per-test forking? use-cases?
> - what have you been missing regarding test execution in your build?
> we would like to know!

There have been some times in testing Gant (invariably the "spawn an
Ant" tests) where perTest forking worked and once forking failed.  This
turned out to be because of the necessary but incorrect use of static
global variables.  Without the ability to make use of both perTest and
once fork modes, there would have been no way of debugging the problem.

I am still seeing echoes of the problem in some current runs with Gradle
and with Canoo's CruiseControl, but not with Ant, Gant, my Buildbots or
Codehaus' Bamboo.

Debugging these problems is *hard* :-(

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