chunked output

Micah Martin <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:56:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.fit.devel
Message-ID <AF07776DB5D1D211BC0700A0C9E9237FAFC6B6@objectmentor>
It can take a long time to run some tests.  

I worked with one team that used FitNesse to test thier web app.  Simple
tests ran in 10 secs but some of the longer ones took up to 2 minutes.  To
run a suite of tests...whew... come back after lunch!
  
The problem with these tests is that you don't get any feedback until
execution has completely finished.  You click the button and you have no
idea what is going on until you get ALL the results.  It would be really
nice if you could see each table turn green or red as soon as it was
processed.  The entire test might take a few minutes to finish but you would
see progress as it was made.

By using chunked encoding I can make FitNesse do this.  But it means that
FIT will need to spit out the results as soon as it makes them.  FIT needs
chunked output.

Now for the purpose of web pages it doesn't make sense to output anything
less than table.  Browsers cannot format a table untill they have the ending
</table> tag.  So if FIT could output a table at a time, that would make me
happy.

Please consider this feature for 1.0

Micah