[Scons-dev] Status of QMTest framework support

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>wrote:


>

>> So, what about this directory? Should it be renamed or purged?

>>

>

> It's got the whole test framework in it (TestCmd, TestSCons etc.) so it's

> important -- it should be renamed.  Maybe "test-framework"?

>


The first idea was TestSC, but if we aim for the lowercase consistency then
just 'testing' seems good.



>  And btw, I just added -jN to runtest.py, so per the above wiki page, we

>>> can now run the tests in parallel (with no QMTest).  With -j10 on my

>>> average dual-core laptop, the tests take about 15 minutes now, and the test

>>> results seem OK.  And we also have test timing and time reporting now, as

>>> well as out-of-core tool testing and test fixtures.  So at this point I

>>> think there's no further reason to consider QMTest.  I'll mark that wiki

>>> page as pretty much all complete now.

>>>

>>

>> I guess the next bottleneck is to speed up disk operations. Something to

>> dig about ramdisks in user space.  At least Linux looks like a capable OS.

>>

>

> Sure, why not!  I'm much happier already, so will probably move into other

> areas, but any test speedups are always welcome.  Another possibility would

> be to look at the slowest tests (use -t) and see why they are slow.  They

> may be doing unnecessary work.

>


To be honest I am more worried about my SSD longevity than speed.
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