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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: multi-threaded run-tests.php
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Richard,

  erm, php run-tests.php -h or --help was to hard?

Friday, July 27, 2007, 5:56:10 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, July 25, 2007 12:38 pm, Andrey Hristov wrote:
>>  Hi Tony,
>> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>>> On 25.07.2007 19:37, Nuno Lopes wrote:
>>>> So here it is my first attempt:
>>>> http://gcov.php.net/~nlopess/multi_threaded_run_tests.txt
>>>> WARNING: The patch is ugly and the output of the script isn't the
>>>> prettiest.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, for automated testing seems to be good enough.
>>>>
>>>> Nuno
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: after this little hack, I also start to feel that
>>>> run-tests.php
>>>> should be rewritten  
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, this is 100% truth, Sebastian have had some ideas
>>> about it.
>>>
>>
>> I also have a hack, that makes it possible to re-run a test few times.
>> I
>> call it iteration. For every iteration there is
>> $_ENV['TEST_ITERATION'].
>> Based on which different consts are defined by the pre-include script.
>> I
>> am using it for testing mysqlnd against a bunch of MySQL Server, the
>> minimalistic configuration is doing 3 iterations against 4.1, 5.0 and
>> 5.1 Server. Not sure that other extensions could benefit from it, but
>> at
>> least the DB connectivity ones..like testing OCI8....

> FWIW:

> I spent about 10 to 20 minutes trying to figure out if it was possible
> to easily run just a subset of tests and failed.

> I dunno if that indicates that it's a feature to be added, one to be
> better documented, or that I'm just being stupid (again), but there it
> is.  

> -- 
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> Yeah, I get a buck. So?




Best regards,
 Marcus