Since around 2011 there's been an item on the ideas list on php.net: (https://wiki.php.net/ideas/runtests) to improve the PHP test suite, I was thinking as one of my first major contributions I would like to take a stab at this, there's no upwards of 11,000 tests as compared to the 8000 or so when the idea was originally proposed, and it looks like some work was initially started but it's likely now outdated and I think it would be better to start from a blank sheet.
Would this be of interest for 7.2? My main goals would be to maintain backwards compatibility with all the existing tests, allow it to be run on the existing CI infrastructure, be cross-platform, and for it to be part of the internals repository, with initial work being done outside of the repository with a view to merging for the 7.2 release. A question I have is that is it better that it continues to be a written in PHP, or is the internals team open to perhaps writing the test runner in another language, keeping the same flags that run-tests.php currently uses, but choosing a language which could improve the performance of the suite. Thoughts appreciated always. Daniel Morris. -- Daniel Morris dan...@honestempire.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
