Re: Parallel tests

2013-02-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/19/2013 02:39 PM, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > I have a library that, among other things, has a number of functions > related to event handling with timeouts. In order to get reliable > results, I have to use long timeouts, which add up in the total test > time. Is there a way to have test

Parallel tests

2013-02-19 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a library that, among other things, has a number of functions related to event handling with timeouts. In order to get reliable results, I have to use long timeouts, which add up in the total test time. Is there a way to have tests run in p

[PATCH] docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental (was: Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility)

2013-01-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
7.git.stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:02:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental So don't declare it as such in the documentation. Reported by Brandon Black: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2

Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log -> .html conversion?

2012-01-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/08/2012 07:27 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Reference: > > > On 01/05/2012 11:14 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >>> So, in conclusion, here is my simple proposal: >>> >>> 1.

Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log -> .html conversion?

2012-01-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
6b3b12f710c61e37632d4bc6eaac3ab8bcdaddb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:26:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: deprecate .log -> .html conversion by parallel-tests That feature is to be deprecated in the 1.11.x series, and removed in the 1.

Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log -> .html conversion?

2012-01-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: So, in conclusion, here is my simple proposal: 1. We deprecate the support for HTML testsuite output in the documentation of the 1.11.3 release. 2. In the 1.12 release, we remove it from the automake core, providing instead (in the automak

parallel-tests use case (was: split check target into check and test targets)

2010-02-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:11:28PM CET: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:49:26PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Dunno if you've heard of the parallel-tests option > ... > > It also allows you to sort of rerun only tests that are out of date >

Re: 'make check' failure on MinGW (was: The New parallel-tests Framework)

2009-05-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
It seems that this problem is perhaps not make version specific since I installed GNU make 3.79.1 on a Solaris system and the test suite passes without the error. I did a diff between the MinGW Makefile and one from Solaris, and found not much interesting except for this: < am__test_logs2 =

'make check' failure on MinGW (was: The New parallel-tests Framework)

2009-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:29:18PM CEST: > On Sat, 23 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:33PM CEST: >>> I now have parallel tests working in GraphicsMagick (verified under >>> Solaris, FreeBS

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework

2009-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:33PM CEST: > I now have parallel tests working in GraphicsMagick (verified under > Solaris, FreeBSD, and OS-X Leopard) except that under MinGW (TDM > version) 'make check' ends with: > > make[3]: *** No

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I now have parallel tests working in GraphicsMagick (verified under Solaris, FreeBSD, and OS-X Leopard) except that under MinGW (TDM version) 'make check' ends with: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.log', needed by `test-suite.log'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You probably need to do this instead: TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh utilities/tests/montage.log : \ utilities/tests/addnoise.log \ utilities/tests/affine.log \ utilities/tests/annotate.log \ ... as test dependencies currently

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:54:02AM CEST: > On Thu, 21 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> 6. Dependencies between Tests >> = >> >> If there are dependencies between your tests, e.g., foo.test needs to be >> run before baz.chk can be run

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 6. Dependencies between Tests = If there are dependencies between your tests, e.g., foo.test needs to be run before baz.chk can be run, then, with TEST_EXTENSIONS set as above, you can now go ahead and specify them as depen

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello once again, > > allow me to expand upon this topic a bit more.  In this message, I will > not try to be fair towards the different test suite frameworks; instead, > I'll bluntly praise the new p

The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello once again, allow me to expand upon this topic a bit more. In this message, I will not try to be fair towards the different test suite frameworks; instead, I'll bluntly praise the new parallel-tests driver. :-) > Automake TESTS support, as of version 1.11, consists of two d

parallel tests execution in Automake; new integration branch

2009-03-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello everyone, I've cleaned up the patch set for parallel tests execution in Automake, and put most of it in a public branch for people to poke with: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/automake.git git checkout -t origin/ad-parallel-tests There are a couple of patches that I&#