parallel_tests compatibility?

[maxlinc]

This looks similar to a popular existing project, https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests. I've got no objection to a snap specific wrapper, but I wanted to know if snap workers also work with projects that already use parallel_tests.

The parallel_tests project has more features and more documentation, including a RailsCast episode, cucumber and spinach support, easy distributed parallel support, better loggers or summary reports, and documentation on how to deal with databases/capybara/etc.

[ketan]

@maxlinc

There are a bunch of reasons that we recommend Snap's parallel-tests over the one at https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.

• snap's parallel tests is simpler because -
  • it only understands how to partition files, not individual tests inside files
  • involves no configuration that end users have to make (database.yml, rake parallel:prepare etc)
  • it is meant to only run on multiple machines

The first 2 reasons above also allow it to be used to run tests that are not ruby based -

$ ./your-test-suite $([bundle exec] snap-ci-parallel-partition [options] [files or directories])

Does this answer your question?