Archive for February, 2013
El cheapo 10Gbps networking
I’ve been hitting the limits of gigabit ethernet at home for quite a while now, and as I spend more time working with cloud technologies this started to frustrate me. I’d heard of other folk getting good results with second hand Infiniband cards and decided to give it a go myself. I bought two Voltaire […]
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Tags: cloud, infiniband, performance, ubuntu
StreamResult, covered in my last few blog posts, has panned out pretty well. Until that is, that I sat down to do a serialised version of it. It became fairly clear that the wire protocol can be very simple – just one event type that has a bunch of optional fields – test ids, routing […]
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Tags: Python, Subunit, testing, testsupport, testtools, unittest
My last two blog posts were largely about the needs of subunit, but a key result of any protocol is how easy working with it in a high level language is. In the weekend and evenings I’ve done an implementation of a new set of classes – StreamResult and friends – that provides: Adaption to […]
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Tags: performance, Python, Subunit, testing, testrepository, testsupport, testtools, unittest
More subunit needs
Of course, as happens sadly often, the scope creeps.. Additional pain points Zope’s test runner runs things that are not tests, but which users want to know about – ‘layers’. At the moment these are reported as individual tests, but this is problematic in a couple of ways. Firstly, the same ‘test’ runs on multiple […]
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Tags: coverage, junit, Python, Subunit, TAP, testing, testrepository, unittest
Subunit is seven and a half years old now – Conrad Parker and I first sketched it up at a CodeCon – camping and coding, a brilliant combination – in mid 2005. revno: 1 committer: Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> timestamp: Sat 2005-08-27 15:01:20 +1000 message: design up a protocol with kfish It has proved remarkably resilient […]
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Tags: concurrency, debugging, junit, performance, Python, Subunit, testing, testrepository
