Kero van Gelder wrote:
That would be very cool, you have lots of good ideas there. Being able
to plug in your own file-change strategy would be killer. Another cool
idea I ran across the other idea is being able to specify in your
examples that which ones are "focussed". Meaning, autotest will only
run the focussed ones and not bother running the entire suite. Once you
have solved the problem at hand you remove the focussed tag and the
whole suite is then ran. This idea, *which is already implemented*,
comes from Micronaut[1]. The idea is very similar to Cucumber's and
RSpec's[2] tagging feature (yet to come for rspec). The cool thing
about micronaunt is that they have tied it into autotest. Ideally, we
could be able to tell autotest, or whatever program, to only run tests
that are tagged a certain way-- and then you could override that with
the "focused" tag. So, we can add that to our list of cool things to
have. :)
Are you saying you want multiple tags and let autotest do logic on them?
- run everything "focus and current_feature"
- run everything "current_feature or related_to_it"
Or are you saying you should explicitely specified which test went wrong
(would it be nice if autotest just ran all your recently failed features
first and the rest later; compared to the last failure only, as it is
supposed to do now, afaik; perhaps after running previously failed
features, it can run newest features first, finally followed by the other
features).
The way micronaut currently works is that when you tag an example or
example group as "focussed" autotest will only run those. So you are
overriding it's default behaviour and not running the entire suite.
Or are you saying it's going to be separate from tags completely?
I'm feeling my first idea will run out of hand (adding complexity,
while not solving a specific need), the third sounds bad from a
technical Point of view. The second one comes from the observation
that "focussing" is a process, not a property. You state
"you remove the focussed tag"
yourself. "important" could be a property, if you don't remove it.
Yeah, it is a process and that is what I like about it. When working on
a large suite it is impractical to run the entire suite in conjunction
with autotest. So, you end up running them by hand. I really like
using autotest though and so by providing this feature one can still use
autotest in there workflow/process when working on new functionality in
a large project.
I haven't used it too much, but it seems like a really useful thing to
have. Having autotest act on multiple tags may get too complicated, but
I think the "focussed" tag is pretty straightforward.
-Ben
Bye,
Kero.
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