On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:10:38PM -0300, Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> I have written a patch to approach the TODO item of "prove":
>
> Shuffled tests must be recreatable
>
> "prove" still works the same, but with extra options to control
> --shuffle option.
>
> prove --shuffle t # runs shuffled 't/*.t' scripts (as usual)
>
> prove --shuffle --seed=808208 t # shuffle is initiated with given seed value
>
> prove --shuffle --list=5,4,0,1,2,3 t # the shuffle list is predetermined
I'm not sure I see the utility in that last one that significantly beats
out just reordering the arguments to prove. Do you have a use case? And
what happens when the number of args is > the list?
> I am sending it for your appreciation. I am still writing a test for
> --shuffle and the added options --seed and --list.
If I may suggest something. --shuffle should print the seed it used
my $seed = $Seed || int rand(2**$Config{randbits});
print STDERR "Using seed: $seed\n";
srand $seed;
that way you can repeat a failed --shuffle test without having to first
remember to set --seed.
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