RE: chunked output

Micah asked:

> 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

So is 1.0 supposed to consolidate and codify or add new features or a
little of each?

Charlie Poole
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