[Scons-dev] Status of QMTest framework support

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>wrote:


>

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:03 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

>

>> Hi,

>>

>> For a long time I thought that QMTest is bundled with SCons. Now I see

>> that it is some external framework, which downloads are no longer

>> available. So, the questions are:

>>

>> 1. What the code in QMTest directory is for?

>> 2. Are there pieces from GPL'ed QMTest framework?

>> 3. What things are we still missing from it?

>> http://www.scons.org/wiki/SConsTestingRevisions

>>

>> And what is this AegisBatchStream and "test result stream" in general?

>>

>> Aegis was used originally by Stephen for packaging I believe.  It hasn't

> been used in many years.  It should be flushed; see

> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.devel/10707for instance.

>

> QMTest was thought to be a good test framework for Python programs; we got

> pretty deeply into it for a while, but eventually discovered we had

> "extended" it so far we weren't really using QMTest itself hardly at all.

>  The tests *might* still run under QMTest but I don't think anyone cares

> anymore.

>


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

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.
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