Re: [PATCH] make it possible to skip very slow tests

On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Steph Fox wrote:

There's nothing wrong with that approach. I'm trying to find something that addresses the problem (i.e., "how can I not run tests that are going to take a long time to run?"), while providing enough flexibility to answer other problems (i.e., "how can I skip X tests that I don't care about?"). If there's a way to address the problem without making it so specific, I'm all for it.

I mostly agree - I'm just looking at 'here and now' rather than 'when the nice new test suite stuff is done'. 'Here and now', there isn't a reliable way to set this up and skipif looks like the cleanest option.

The only problem with that is everything you add I've got to add to my GSoC project so PHPT :-)

That might not be a bad idea.

I think the long-term goal should be the ability to "force skip" files based on an --exclude parameter, an ini conf file (looks for --ini-file <file> or <cwd>/tests.ini), and an ENV variable. The first and last would just be separated by the PATH_SEPARATOR for regex patterns. In addition, we can definitely make the time-out something that's settable via the command line and conf, but as you noted in your next email, that is a separate issue. I've created a few tickets on these so we can make sure to track these issues: * add exclude: http://phpt.info/ticket/69 * add timeout: http://phpt.info/ticket/70 -T