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Subject: Re: [PHP-QA] running tests in parallel?
From: aparachic@gmail.com (zoe slattery)

Hi

Thanks for the replies to this thread - I'll get on with it then :-)

Zoe
> It's very important! Take a look at http://gcov.php.net
> A single build takes almost 2 days with most extensions enabled plus 
> valgrind testing.
>
> So, yes, parallel testing would be highly appreciated (but do not 
> forget my initial requirements, such as e.g. mysql and mysqli tests 
> cannot run at the same time).
>
> Nuno
>
> -----Original Message----- From: zoe slattery
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:54 AM
> Subject: [PHP-QA] running tests in parallel?
>
> Hi
>
> Some years ago (in 2009) Stefan Priebsch, myself and a GSOC student
> worked on a version of run-tests.php which would run tests in parallel -
> I wrote about it here:
> http://zoomsplatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/on-no-not-more-tests.html.
>
> The code was complete apart from finding some way to handle REDIRECT and
> does run faster on multi core systems but for various reasons we all ran
> out of time to work on it.  I recently checked out the code and it
> still  works, there are a few little things to be fixed, and of course
> REDIRECT still needs to be implemented. I have some free time now and
> would be happy to do this, however, I've been fairly out of touch with
> PHP since 2009, so before I get on and make this work:
>
> (a) Would it still be helpful if the tests could be run faster?
> (b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I
> looked at this?
>
> Thanks,
> Zoe