[Pdx-pm] Fwd: Parallel Testing talk on Monday

[Austin Schutz]

	Sweeeeeeet!!! I was bummed to miss Wednesday's meeting this month,
it's cool to be able to get a sort of 'second chance' at some good perl geek
time. Thanks for posting!

	Austin

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:26PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
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> Subject: [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] PLUG Advanced Topics - September 17th 2007
> Date: Friday 14 September 2007 09:00 am
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> PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting
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> September 17th, 2007  7pm
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> Jax Bar
> 826 SW 2nd Avenue
> Portland, Oregon
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> Speaker: Eric Wilhelm
>           Scratch Computing
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> Title:  "Parallel Testing with Perl"
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> Since 1988, Perl (and then CPAN) has used the "Test Anything Protocol"
> to relay test results from test files to a test harness.
> 
> In 2006, Curtis "Ovid" Poe started the TAP::Harness project, which has
> formalized the TAP protocol, cleaned-up the harness code, and made it
> possible to do lots of new and exciting things with the Perl test
> tools.  As an example, Eric Wilhelm has already implemented a parallel
> test harness as a very thin and clean layer on top of TAP::Harness.
> 
> TAP has grown up, and is not just for Perl anymore.  TAP producers are
> already available for C/C++, Forth, Java, Javascript, Python, PHP,
> PL/SQL, and can be easily developed for any language (or process) which
> is able to produce plaintext output.
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> This presentation will cover
>    * the simple innards of the TAP protocol
>    * running your tests with a harness
>    * testing multiple languages
>    * testing poultry
>    * running tests in parallel
>    * resolving parallel resource conflicts
>    * moving on: caching and clustering
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> More info:  http://testanything.org
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> Standard meeting rules apply.
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