# from Rafael Garcia-Suarez # on Wednesday 14 November 2007 22:27: >Yes, and other core tests are sensitive to load (stress tests for >threads, Benchmark.pm, ...). So that would be useful. But since that >probably needs to be discussed at the TAP level...
I would love to be able to address this sort of thing *before* the TAP level. That is, the test might be declared as time-sensitive and potentially the harness could be configured to retry $n times or something fun like that (wait $n seconds for a lighter load, or just translate the fail to skip.) But that might just be my pet butter mold talking. Perhaps it is simply a Test::Builder feature with TAP diagnostics and a "maybe_ok($what, $name, $why)" sort-of deal. Any chance that the "test metadata" aspects of "extra testing" also apply to testing in general? Should we be defining might_fail and maybe_skip or so? http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/extra_testing.txt --Eric -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
