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On 2011.10.30 11:15 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Michael G Schwern
> # on Sunday 30 October 2011 20:30:
>
>> The current Test::Builder implementation is a mess and its design
>> cannot go forward. They have to be gotten just right to ensure that
>> not just nested TAP is supported, but nesting in other formats. Or
>> if those formats don't have nesting, then linearizing the subtests in
>> those formats. And event watcher (ie. plugins) authors have to be
>> shielded from the complexity.
>
> Maybe have a null or default handler for the subtests -- possibly
> allowing authors to use a base class or role which gives them a
> subtest_start() returning the null handler and subtest_end() which just
> forwards the summary as a single test event.
>
> Is there a second format being implemented to test this API?
There's five. TAP v13, POSIX, Null, PlusMinus and SimpleHTML. [1] [2] Of
them all, TAP is the one that's most fleshed out. POSIX has proven most
useful as a disparate format.
I would love to see a formatter for Jenkins/JUnit, [3] that would probably be
the most useful and interesting. I'd also love to see one that just spat out
events as a list of JSON objects [4], useful both for debugging and as a
lossless format for communicating to a harness.
[1]
https://github.com/schwern/test-more/tree/Test-Builder1.5/lib/Test/Builder2/Formatter
[2]
https://github.com/schwern/test-more/blob/Test-Builder1.5/examples/TB2/lib/TB2/Formatter/SimpleHTML.pm
[3] https://github.com/schwern/test-more/issues/158
[4] https://github.com/schwern/test-more/issues/159
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