[fpc-pascal] FPCUnit - parallel test suite execution

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Mar 19 09:10:06 CET 2015


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> As per good unit test guidelines, tests should be independent of each
> other and not rely on results from earlier tests. The perfect candidate
> for parallelism. So what about the idea of running x amount of test
> suites in parallel? It should at least give our multi-core CPU's
> something to do and maybe complete 2000+ tests in a shorter period. ;-)
> 
> Thoughts?

In any event the output would need to be presented in a reproducible 
sequence.

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