Added --loadby random
Reported by seangeo | April 15th, 2008 @ 05:35 PM | in No-Milestone-Assigned
The following GitHub commit add support for a --loadby random option that randomizes the order in which specs are run.
http://github.com/seangeo/rspec/...
This is my first patch submitted through git, let me know if anything is wrong with it.
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David Chelimsky April 16th, 2008 @ 05:04 AM
- → Assigned user changed from “” to “David Chelimsky”
- → State changed from “new” to “resolved”
- → Milestone changed from “No-Milestone-Assigned” to “1.1.4”
Applied: http://github.com/dchelimsky/rsp...
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David Chelimsky April 16th, 2008 @ 02:51 PM
- → State changed from “resolved” to “open”
I had applied this, but some of my commits got lost. Re-opening this. I'll reapply the patch when we figure out what happened.
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David Chelimsky April 24th, 2008 @ 03:21 PM
Hey Sean - looks like this only randomizes the file order. I'd think we'd want randomization of the examples as well - what do you think?
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seangeo April 24th, 2008 @ 04:50 PM
I found file order useful to detect dependencies between specs, mainly caused by fixtures in Rails. Randomizing examples would also be useful I guess. Would you want the randomizing of examples to be done across specs or within specs? Is across specs even possible? What happens to spec level things, like fixtures and befores/afters if we randomize examples across specs?
I'd be happy to investigate this further but I'd need some pointers on where to start.
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David Chelimsky April 24th, 2008 @ 05:02 PM
I think that randomizing examples across example groups would be more trouble than its worth. IMO, there are three levels:
files
groups within a file
examples within a group
That make sense?
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Brian Takita May 26th, 2008 @ 03:23 AM
I agree that randomizing Examples globably would be a lot of trouble. However randomizing the ExampleGroups and the Examples within an ExampleGroup wouldn't be too bad.
The reason I bring this up is the NestedTextFormatter would output duplicate trees if the Examples were globally randomized.
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David Chelimsky May 27th, 2008 @ 07:45 AM
- → Milestone changed from “1.1.4” to “1.1.5”
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David Chelimsky June 23rd, 2008 @ 10:59 AM
- → Milestone changed from “1.1.5” to “No-Milestone-Assigned”
Sean - this still in your radar?
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David Chelimsky June 23rd, 2008 @ 11:03 AM
- → State changed from “open” to “awaiting-patch”
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seangeo June 24th, 2008 @ 04:50 AM
It is, I've just been pretty busy lately. I'll try and get to it this
week, I should have some time.
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