'make smolder_fulltest' now available; 'make fulltest' revised

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

Thanks so much for this! It looks awesome and I will be testing it out soon.

Duke

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> In the kid51/testsets2 branch I have developed functionality to run 'make
> fulltest' as one overall harness (with one summary for all tests) rather
> than as a succession of harnesses.  In addition, I have developed a 'make
> smolder_fulltest' target which will create an archive of a 'make fulltest'
> run and upload the archive to our Smolder server.
>
> This picks up a line of work begun by Jonathan Leto earlier this year. At
> first I began working in the branch which Jonathan developed, but then I
> realized it was a considerably more complex problem, so I started a fresh
> branch.
>
> In the course of developing this functionality, it seemed wise to
> disentangle some of the code underlying the current master version of
> t/harness.  So now we designate groups of tests via a new package,
> Parrot::Harness::TestSets.  Some code in Parrot::Harness::DefaultTests and
> t/harness was revised accordingly.
>
> t/harness has accrued a lot of cruft over the years, so it seemed best to
> create a separate program, t/fullharness, to underlie 'make fulltest' and
> 'make smolder_fulltest'.  Getting a single-overall-harness for 'make
> fulltest' was not too difficult.  But getting 'make smolder_fulltest' forced
> me deep into the guts of TAP::Parser and TAP::Harness::Archive. The result
> was two subclassing packages, TAP::Harness::ReportByDescription and
> TAP::Harness::Archive::MultipleHarnesses.  I've included them in Parrot
> under 'lib/', but I'll be discussing with the authors of their parent
> modules how to get them on CPAN.  The documentation for these packages is
> not yet in good shape.
>
> Here is an example of the output from 'make smolder_fulltest':
> http://smolder.parrot.org/app/projects/report_details/24016
>
> 'make smolder_fulltest', like 'make fulltest', will probably be useful be
> useful (a) in preparation for releases or (b) in preparation for merges of
> large branches.
>
> Please review.  Thank you very much.
>
> Jim Keenan
>
>
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