Matisse Enzer wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> >> I start at the top, read the first few failures, fix them and rerun. >> I ignore >> the bulk of a really large failure as they're probably just cascades >> of the >> one mistake. > > This reminds me - I was wondering what it would take to implement a > "BAIL_ON_FAIL" approach to running a test suite - a settings that > determines how many failures before the whole test run stops. Default > would be to keep running no matter how many failures, but you could set > it to 1 and then bam, the whole test run stops on the frst failure.
that should be fairly simple to implement. you could start with this: http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-qa@perl.org/msg08973.html which I believe schwern already has in his queue for a future release (according to the archive, anyway) fwiw, I have been using this patch in my local install and it's quite helpful. HTH --Geoff
