Re: running tests in parallel?

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, zoe slattery <aparachic@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Some years ago (in 2009) Stefan Priebsch, myself and a GSOC student worked > on a version of run-tests.php which would run tests in parallel - I wrote > about it here: > > http://zoomsplatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/on-no-not-more-tests.html. > > The code was complete apart from finding some way to handle REDIRECT and > does run faster on multi core systems but for various reasons we all ran out > of time to work on it.  I recently checked out the code and it still  works, > there are a few little things to be fixed, and of course REDIRECT still > needs to be implemented. I have some free time now and would be happy to do > this, however, I've been fairly out of touch with PHP since 2009, so before > I get on and make this work: > > (a) Would it still be helpful if the tests could be run faster? > (b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I looked at > this? > > Thanks, > Zoe Haha, I was thinking about that while heavily testing PHP5.4, as well as writing suppression files for Valgrind reports. Ferenc told me you worked on parallel tests running, happy to see you can now probably complete the work :) :) Julien