Re: [activities] talk proposal: testing with subunit, indepth

James Polley <[email protected]>
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Sgtm++. will update official notices on the morrow.




On 21/07/2009, at 16:16, Robert Collins <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> I hear we need an indepth talk for SLUG. I've this project, subunit,
> which has been knocking around for a while - it started out at a  
> codecon
> a few yeards back, and I'd be delighted to give a talk about it, its
> design, motivations and so forth.
>
> Subunit [https://launchpad.net/subunit] is a streaming protocol for  
> test
> results. I used it in bzr to parallelise the test suite and make
> effective use of multi-core machines (something python isn't
> intrinsically good at), and to run tests in a massively parallel way  
> via
> amazon ec2.
>
> Subunit is likely to be useful for anyone doing nontrivial automated
> testing, particularly when distributing or otherwise running the tests
> in a noninteractive fashion.
>
> -Rob
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