On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > Am 25.09.2013 um 19:27 schrieb Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com>: > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:02:07PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:28:04 +0100, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> G9. end users can find the level of DBI API compliance of a driver > >>> i.e., by looking at the test configuration for the driver > >>> to see what areas of functionality are configured to be skipped. > >> > >> I have a hard time parsing that. > > > > Drivers have various limitations, things they don't, or can't, support. > > It would be unreasonable for them to fail DBIT for those reasons. > > So there needs to be a way for those drivers to tell DBIT that > > certain tests should be skipped. > > Riba put that into a > > R4: It should be possible to configure which test(case) should be > run and which not. This should be possible in a manner which > avoids asking cpantesters 100 y/n questions ^^ > > Maybe this belongs to that point (Riba should be able to explain better).
I'd appreciate more details. > For me, a G10 is interesting (handling SQL::Statement as a DBD) > > G10: Provide tools/infrastructure to combines several test cases in > particular order into tests to allow workflows being tested > and stress tests by looping can be performed. Also here. I'm not quite sure what problem this is trying to address. Tim.