Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> writes:

> My suggestion for improving the tests is to use the standard TAP
> output format. The Perl tests used to do this. There are a number of
> tools and additional automations that become possible or easy when
> this is done.
>
> There is a library to help easily do this with shell scripts:
> http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Tap-functions
>
> TAP has also been ported to Haskell, so it could be used for the unit
> tests as well:
>
> http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/HaskellTapModule

I'm not entirely clear what this buys us and if there is any cost, but I'll
leave this open in case anybody wants to work on it

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:22:17PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> I'm not entirely clear what this buys us and if there is any cost,
> but I'll leave this open in case anybody wants to work on it

This ticket should probably be retitled.  The idea is to adopt *A*
standard functional test framework (replacing our NIH version),
because it ought to reduce our maintenance burden.

TAP is simply an example that was mentioned on the mailing list.

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:22:17 +0000
Eric Kow <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:

> 
> Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
> 
> I'm not entirely clear what this buys us and if there is any cost, but I'll
> leave this open in case anybody wants to work on it

TAP, and perhaps other standard test outputs, have a whole range of tools 
that you can use to manipulate them.

For example, 'prove' is an excellent, versatile tool for running test suites
different ways. It allows you to express things like: "please re-run the test
suite, but this time only run the tests that failed time".

However, if there are no specific complaints about managing the test suite,
then this ticket can be closed, as it as means-to-an-end, not a goal in itself.

    Mark

Alright I'm going to wont-fix this and note that we aren't opposed if anybody
does work on it, we just aren't experiencing sufficient pain with our test suite
to justify doing anything about this.  Patches welcome, but *shrug* otherwise :-)