running tests in parallel?

(a) Would it still be helpful if the tests could be run faster?

Yes.

(b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I looked at
this?

I haven't seen anything!

cheers,
Derick

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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

Haha, I was thinking about that while heavily testing PHP5.4, as well
as writing suppression files for Valgrind reports.
Ferenc told me you worked on parallel tests running, happy to see you
can now probably complete the work :) :)

Julien

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在 2012-5-3，18:55，zoe slattery aparachic@gmail.com 写道：

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?

great work!

I used to type make test -j. But it turns out doesnt work:(

Thanks

Thanks,
Zoe

Hi,

2012/5/3 zoe slattery aparachic@gmail.com:

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.

I'm very glad you have free time to finish this :) I looked at source
code recently, but was unable to see what was missing to get it
running. I think I emailed you about this a year ago, then I moved to
QA report project ;)

Having tests running in parallel will be a huge improvement. Also
having different output (like XML) will help for loading user
feedbacks in http://qa.php.net/reports/

If you need any help on this, feel free to ask.

Olivier

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?

Absolutely.

(b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I looked at this?

Practically no, though we did try to encourage some efforts from new contributors.
Also Nuno was looking at a quick hack for gcov.php.net; I'm not sure if he got
anywhere with this.

Chris

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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