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  • In HARNESS_OPTIONS we can set -jN to note we want parallel tests running, but how can a particular module, which might be buried in the dependency chain, tell the harness it can't do that? It seems ...
    Brian d foyBrian d foy
    May 2, 2013 at 7:39 pm
    May 7, 2013 at 6:06 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering April 2013. April has been a very busy time for me outside of grant work on ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    May 1, 2013 at 8:40 pm
    May 4, 2013 at 9:40 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering March 2013. Sorry for the delay in this report. Most of March and all of ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    May 1, 2013 at 8:38 pm
    May 4, 2013 at 9:38 pm
  • 0.98_05 is a release candidate for 0.99. I would say this is the last stable release of Test::More before 1.5.0 but hahahaha I won't say that ...
    Michael G. SchwernMichael G. Schwern
    Apr 25, 2013 at 5:36 pm
    Apr 28, 2013 at 1:49 am
  • Hi, As the main organizer of the next Perl QA Hackathon in Lyon (the venue is here: http://goo.gl/maps/mXo15), I would like to collect some feedback on the hackathon that we just came back from, in ...
    Philippe Bruhat (BooK)Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
    Apr 17, 2013 at 9:59 am
    Apr 19, 2013 at 11:35 am
  • TL;DR version... IMO we only need to clarify what "conflicts" means and what actions CPAN tools should take. We talked in the Consensus Dome about the need for and meaning of the "conflicts" ...
    Michael G. SchwernMichael G. Schwern
    Apr 15, 2013 at 4:56 pm
    Apr 18, 2013 at 8:26 am
  • I've just updated the wiki with the achievements around the projects I was associated with. I'll paste them below. http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/wiki?node=Achievements In addition I fleshed out ...
    Michael G. SchwernMichael G. Schwern
    Apr 15, 2013 at 4:20 pm
    Apr 15, 2013 at 5:16 pm
  • The following was posted at http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/wiki?node=Achievements, but I figured that it should be posted on-list as well. ########## At the 2013 Perl QA Hackathon in Lancaster, ...
    James E KeenanJames E Keenan
    Apr 15, 2013 at 3:40 am
    Apr 15, 2013 at 3:40 am
  • Nicholas, tl;dr: TAP::Harness uses lots of RAM to store test results Yes, I ran into this before.(*) I was referred to a portion of the Test::Builder POD(**) which says that perhaps it will be fixed ...
    Buddy BurdenBuddy Burden
    Apr 11, 2013 at 5:24 pm
    Apr 11, 2013 at 5:37 pm
  • Hei! Looking forward to the hackathon this weekend! :) Just to make it a little more fun/productive, my colleagues and I are bringing some code to show you all! :D We're bringing a functioning ...
    Salve J NilsenSalve J Nilsen
    Apr 11, 2013 at 6:30 am
    Apr 24, 2013 at 7:43 am
  • Hei! Looking forward to the hackathon this weekend! :) Just to make it a little more fun/productive, my colleagues and I are bringing some code to show you all! :D We're bringing a functioning ...
    Salve J NilsenSalve J Nilsen
    Apr 10, 2013 at 9:36 pm
    Apr 10, 2013 at 9:36 pm
  • tl;dr: TAP::Harness uses lots of RAM to store test results Particularly lots and lots for millions of little "ok\n"s It would be nice if it didn't use lots of RAM when storing things that mostly ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Apr 10, 2013 at 12:45 pm
    Apr 10, 2013 at 3:04 pm
  • I'd like people's opinions on a possible downgrade of Test::Builder 1.5 in an attempt to make getting a stable release out easier. It has to do with whether we keep minor changes to the TAP ...
    Michael G. SchwernMichael G. Schwern
    Apr 9, 2013 at 10:47 pm
    Apr 9, 2013 at 10:47 pm
  • Raised as github issue 51: https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/issues/51 -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig 23.5 degrees of axial tilt is the reason for the season
    David CantrellDavid Cantrell
    Mar 21, 2013 at 4:10 pm
    Mar 21, 2013 at 4:10 pm
  • In Devel/Cover.pm's documentation, I read: ##### =head1 OPTIONS -blib - "use blib" and ignore files matching \bt/ (default true iff blib directory exists). -coverage criterion - Turn on coverage for ...
    James E KeenanJames E Keenan
    Mar 21, 2013 at 2:08 am
    Mar 21, 2013 at 2:08 am
  • Hi Mark, I'm sorry, but I probably can't make the hackathon. I've unregistered via the site. Unfortunately, the French government is being very French about my visa paperwork and it's unclear to me ...
    OvidOvid
    Mar 19, 2013 at 8:20 am
    Mar 22, 2013 at 9:01 am
  • These are non-wiki pages which lack useful information: http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/venue.html http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/news This one has one bind variable needing filling in ...
    James E KeenanJames E Keenan
    Mar 19, 2013 at 2:18 am
    Mar 19, 2013 at 2:18 am
  • Re: http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/wiki?node=Accommodation, specifically, the section: "Booked by Organisers" What nights are covered by this booking? I ask because I may want to arrive in ...
    James E KeenanJames E Keenan
    Mar 19, 2013 at 2:10 am
    Mar 19, 2013 at 2:10 am
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering February 2013. I have released Devel::Cover 1.00! So we finally have a ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Mar 7, 2013 at 10:39 pm
    Mar 12, 2013 at 3:01 am
  • We have just booked the first group of rooms for attendees, and therefore this indicates who we are trying to sponsor (where they have requested it). Please try to update the expenses page as soon as ...
    Mark KeatingMark Keating
    Mar 5, 2013 at 9:26 am
    Mar 19, 2013 at 8:55 am
  • There's perhaps no better illustration of the values of roles vs inheritance in CPAN modules than the mess than that the LWP inheritance tree. There's so many modules that extend LWP or Mechanize ...
    Mark StosbergMark Stosberg
    Feb 28, 2013 at 2:52 pm
    Mar 8, 2013 at 6:10 am
  • We have a large test suite with 20,000+ tests in it, and a number of passing TODO tests in it. Our problem is that once a test is marked as TODO, it falls off our radar, and we are unlikely to notice ...
    Mark StosbergMark Stosberg
    Feb 27, 2013 at 2:06 pm
    Feb 28, 2013 at 3:15 pm
  • Our team was recently benchmarking using Mechanize vs Selenium::Remote::Driver for a basic request pattern: - get a page - check the title - check the body content I expected Selenium to be slower, ...
    Mark StosbergMark Stosberg
    Feb 27, 2013 at 2:01 pm
    Feb 27, 2013 at 2:01 pm
  • Greetings, I was tasked with working on code coverage for a large project, but had difficulty getting Devel::Cover to run. We had Devel::NYTProf handy, and I realized that although that tool focuses ...
    Mark StosbergMark Stosberg
    Feb 27, 2013 at 1:50 pm
    Feb 28, 2013 at 3:34 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering January 2013. If you were watching closely you'll have noticed that I ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Feb 11, 2013 at 8:53 pm
    Feb 13, 2013 at 2:45 am
  • Hi QA folks, Net::Statsd::Server is a UDP server daemon packaged as CPAN module, with a little 'bin/statsd' wrapper script. In the latest release, 0.09, I tried to add some 'integration tests' ...
    Cosimo StrepponeCosimo Streppone
    Jan 31, 2013 at 7:44 am
    Jan 31, 2013 at 7:44 am
  • Hi all, I hope the *.perl.org filters won't give troubles to my title and content, but I've done it as a tribute to http://programming-motherfucker.com/ , which I recommend going over, being the ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Jan 26, 2013 at 9:13 am
    Jan 30, 2013 at 9:11 am
  • Hi all, I apologise that we haven't been sending to this mailing list the news of the QA Hackathon for 2013. Well this will be rectified immediately, in fact this communication does so. There we go ...
    Mark KeatingMark Keating
    Jan 18, 2013 at 11:08 am
    Jan 23, 2013 at 1:25 pm
  • Hi! http://testanything.org wiki is dead! This is just now hurting important discussions. Please, who can fix that? Is it still Andy's wiki? Can we page him? I'm willing to spend time or money to fix ...
    Steffen SchwigonSteffen Schwigon
    Jan 17, 2013 at 1:03 pm
    Jan 17, 2013 at 1:03 pm
  • Guys, Okay, my Google-fu is failing me, so hopefully one of you guys can help me out. For a test, I need to run a snippet of Perl and collect the output. However, if it rus in the current ...
    Buddy BurdenBuddy Burden
    Jan 14, 2013 at 7:59 pm
    Jan 30, 2013 at 1:30 am
  • Hi all, I thought my latest blog post would be of particular interest here: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/01/how-to-write-a-test-description.html (If you respond on the blog, that would be ...
    OvidOvid
    Jan 5, 2013 at 2:41 pm
    Jan 5, 2013 at 2:41 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering December 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover version 0.99. I tested ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Jan 2, 2013 at 3:33 pm
    Jan 2, 2013 at 3:33 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for weeks 30-32 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 08.12 to 28.12. Last week I mentioned the pull requests I ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Jan 2, 2013 at 2:37 pm
    Feb 12, 2013 at 10:26 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 29 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 01.12 to 07.12. I added Devel::Cover to 24pullrequests.com ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Dec 31, 2012 at 11:00 am
    Dec 31, 2012 at 11:00 am
  • Hi! Just saw this message which I did not see in the testanything nor the perl-qa lists. The testanything.org wiki is indeed not accessible. Maybe someone can help. Kind regards, Steffen "Bruno P ...
    Steffen SchwigonSteffen Schwigon
    Dec 20, 2012 at 11:34 am
    Dec 20, 2012 at 5:21 pm
  • Hi all, People keep asking me how to properly integrate Moose with Test::Class. I know about Test::Able and some alternatives, but I *generally* like Test::Class's interface (or maybe I'm just in a ...
    OvidOvid
    Dec 12, 2012 at 5:51 pm
    Dec 17, 2012 at 2:49 pm
  • Just for a bit of fun I thought I'd see how well covered one of my modules is, so I picked Class::Mockable as the victim. It found two places the tests weren't getting to. One of them was easy to ...
    David CantrellDavid Cantrell
    Dec 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm
    Dec 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for weeks 23-28 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 20.10 to 30.11. The work in this report is covered ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:51 pm
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:51 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering November 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 0.97 and 0.98 ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:48 pm
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:48 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering October 2012. First, my apologies for the delay in sending this report. In ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:35 pm
    Dec 4, 2012 at 9:35 pm
  • Devel::Cover breaks my tests! $ cat foo.pl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests = 1; use Attribute::Handlers; my $attributed; sub Foo :ATTR(CODE) { my ($package, $symbol, $referent, $attr, ...
    David CantrellDavid Cantrell
    Nov 29, 2012 at 12:02 pm
    Dec 11, 2012 at 7:34 pm
  • Hello. I have a kind of specific requirements for the daemon I'm trying to author like foreground running, configurable stuff like number of forks, port to listen, etc. I'm wondering if such a module ...
    Peter VereshaginPeter Vereshagin
    Nov 12, 2012 at 8:33 am
    Nov 14, 2012 at 10:20 pm
  • We have a large slow test suite at work (Test::Class, 225 classes, about 45 minutes run time). Many of the tests start by loading a bunch of the same modules. Obviously we could speed things up if we ...
    Jonathan SwartzJonathan Swartz
    Nov 6, 2012 at 1:04 am
    Nov 8, 2012 at 4:18 pm
  • Hello the usual suspects, announcement for next year's hackathon is out, but exact location and the date is not fixed yet: <http://mdk.per.ly/2012/10/29/qa-hackathon-2013/ ...
    Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯
    Oct 30, 2012 at 12:06 pm
    Oct 30, 2012 at 12:06 pm
  • [CCing chromatic in case he's not on perl-qa; my apologies if you get two copies] I'm liberating some code that we use at work. A first cut at CPAN- ising it is here (yes, I know it has no tests ...
    David CantrellDavid Cantrell
    Oct 25, 2012 at 3:05 pm
    Oct 26, 2012 at 11:39 pm
  • Hello QA, The perl-module-rpms Git repository has had a number of changes since its last promotion to production, including the addition of Sqitch. Please QA these for production, as the history ...
    David E. WheelerDavid E. Wheeler
    Oct 23, 2012 at 7:23 pm
    Oct 24, 2012 at 6:37 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 22 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 13.10 to 19.10. I spent this week on the Outer Banks of North ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Oct 22, 2012 at 12:01 am
    Oct 22, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 21 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 06.10 to 12.10. I spent some time fixing up cpancover.com ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Oct 21, 2012 at 11:47 pm
    Oct 21, 2012 at 11:47 pm
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering September 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 0.94, 0.95 and ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Oct 8, 2012 at 12:24 am
    Oct 8, 2012 at 12:24 am
  • In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the report for week 20 of my work on improving Devel::Cover. This report covers 29.09 to 05.10. I wasn't able to do any grant related work ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Oct 8, 2012 at 12:20 am
    Oct 8, 2012 at 12:20 am
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