Re: Common DBI Driver Test Suite - Requirements

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
> Am 25.09.2013 um 19:27 schrieb Tim Bunce <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:02:07PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> >> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:28:04 +0100, Tim Bunce <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>    G9. end users can find the level of DBI API compliance of a driver
> >>>        i.e., by looking at the test configuration for the driver
> >>>        to see what areas of functionality are configured to be skipped.
> >> 
> >> I have a hard time parsing that.
> > 
> > Drivers have various limitations, things they don't, or can't, support.
> > It would be unreasonable for them to fail DBIT for those reasons.
> > So there needs to be a way for those drivers to tell DBIT that
> > certain tests should be skipped.
> 
> Riba put that into a
> 
> R4: It should be possible to configure which test(case) should be
>     run and which not. This should be possible in a manner which
>     avoids asking cpantesters 100 y/n questions ^^
> 
> Maybe this belongs to that point (Riba should be able to explain better).

I'd appreciate more details.


> For me, a G10 is interesting (handling SQL::Statement as a DBD)
> 
> G10: Provide tools/infrastructure to combines several test cases in
>      particular order into tests to allow workflows being tested
>      and stress tests by looping can be performed.

Also here. I'm not quite sure what problem this is trying to address.

Tim.