Test counts

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Nov 2007, at 20:46, Ovid wrote:

> And every time TAP::Parser->new is called, it would increment its  
> current test count by one (this would make it work with parrallel  
> tests, right?).

TAP::Parser being the place to store this info so it's available to  
the formatter?

Could TAP::Harness just tell each new TAP::Parser "you are parser 16  
of 84"? And have the harness do the counting?

I've been looking at that code today for another reason. I've been  
playing around with Test::Steering - which currently runs nested tests  
and massages the TAP output into a single stream and which will - I  
hope - be able to take advantage of structured TAP at some point in  
the future.

That gives us a use case for wishing to run the same test more than  
once:

$ENV{bibble} = 'froon';
include_tests( 'xt/opt/spangler.t' ); # froon spangler
$ENV{bibble} = 'bare'
include_tests( 'xt/opt/spangler.t' ); # bare spangler

Which is a little like the problem you described the other day.

Currently the aggregator chokes if you feed it more than one test with  
a particular name. I'd like to make it possible to specify a test  
either as the name of a script (as currently):

$harness->runtests( 'xt/opt/spangler.t' );

or as the name of a script and a description:

$harness->runtests( [ 'xt/opt/spangler.t', 'froon spangler' ],
                     [ 'xt/opt/spangler.t', 'bare spangler' ] );

Mentioned apropos of not much - just thinking out loud really :)

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Test-Steering/

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten