Hey, |--==> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:07:56 +0100, Jonathan Lange <j...@mumak.net> said:
JL> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Free Ekanayaka <f...@64studio.com> wrote: >>Hi, >> >>is there a way to tell trial run groups of tests in parallel in >>different processes? Something like the "-jN" option in zope-testrunner. >> >>Or alternatively, what's the recommended way to make better use of >>multi-core CPUs when running a test suite with trial? >> JL> In short, no. There's a longstanding ticket about doing this: JL> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1784. Thanks for the pointer, it looks very promising. JL> It would be pretty easy to kludge something together that worked for JL> parallelizing across cores if you're willing to sacrifice the debugger JL> support and a bunch of the other advanced things that disttrial aim to JL> achieve. JL> * Add a way for trial to run tests based off a list of FQPNs in a JL> file, say, --from-list JL> * Write something that does: JL> * trial --reporter=subunit --dry-run | subunit-ls > all-tests JL> * split all-tests into N sublists however you fancy JL> * trial --reporter=subunit --from-list=sublistN JL> * Then something that aggregates those subunit streams into a real report. That would be indeed easy, and probably acceptable while waiting for disttrial to get its way into Twisted trunk. Cheers, Free _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
