On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Eli Naeher <enae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently I've begun writing tests which need to do things in several > threads. I'm curious as to what approaches other people have taken when > doing this, and whether any of the CL test frameworks address this situation > specifically.
I don't have much experience with lparallel yet, but I think it provides the building blocks you're looking for. > - detecting, handling, and reporting conditions that are raised in threads > other than the main test/reporting thread http://lparallel.org/handling/ > - ensuring that the main test thread waits for the other threads before > checking for the correct results (and before returning) http://lparallel.org/promises/ (or possibly other constructs depending on your concrete use case) > - forcing things in different threads to happen at the same time (I've been > using SBCL's timers for this) Queues or channels might help here. HTH, -- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/