Re: [tap] RFC Status?

["Bruno P. Kinoshita" <[e-mail]>]

Hi all, 

Some time ago I started learning about TAP for a Jenkins plugin (TAP Plug-in), for use in another plug-in (TestLink Plug-in) and consequently had to write a Java API for both plug-ins (tap4j.org). There are some users of the TAP plug-in that utilize it for node.js testing, others use the yslow plug-in, and others use for Perl or other kind of automation in their builds.

> What's the current state of TAP? Is there still interest in taking this to RFC status? I found some previous discussions on the list about nested TAP. Did those make it into the specification in any way? If so, where can I find examples of correct nested tap results?

It'd been a while since the last time I visited testanything.org, but the site looks great now! I liked the new layout, kudos to whoever made it.


I couldn't find some old content in the new site though. In tap4j we implement subtests (as in Test::More), like:

  1..3
  ok 1 - First test
      # Subtest: An example subtest
      1..2
      ok 1 - This is a subtest
      ok 2 - So is this
  ok 2 - An example subtest
  ok 3 - Third test

The example below is from this page: http://search.cpan.org/~exodist/Test-Simple-1.001003/lib/Test/More.pm

But IIUC, it is not part of TAP 13 specification. There were some proposals for it in the old site, looking at the internet archive the best I could find was https://web.archive.org/web/20120730055245/http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Proposals

Take a look at "Test Groups" and "Test Blocks". 

I'm participating in a test management OSS application development (PHP), and we are going to use TAP for automation too, so I'm looking forward to new releases/discussions on TAP :)

Hope that helps
Bruno


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> From: Gaurav Vaidya <[e-mail]>
>To: Andrew de Andrade <[e-mail]> 
>Cc: [e-mail] 
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 4:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [tap] RFC Status?
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>Hi Andrew!
>
>On 11 Aug, 2014, at 12:42 pm, Andrew de Andrade <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> While thinking about this, I decided to go out and figure out if there is such a thing as nested TAP in the protocol specification. While searching for this, I came across this group, which is a great, but it appears there has been no activity here in a while and it looks like all the wiki pages with prior information about the state of the TAP protocol becoming an IETF RFC have disappeared. 
>> 
>> What's the current state of TAP? Is there still interest in taking this to RFC status? I found some previous discussions on the list about nested TAP. Did those make it into the specification in any way? If so, where can I find examples of correct nested tap results?
>The most recent version of the spec I could find was at https://github.com/gaurav/test-anything-protocol/blob/master/output/draft-vaidya-test-anything-protocol-00.txt, but this doesn’t talk about nesting at all. I’ve been out of the loop for a long, long time for graduate school reasons, but I think I remember someone (Ovid?) writing up a spec for nested TAP elsewhere?
>
>cheers,
>Gaurav
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