Re: [tap] RFC Status?

[Andrew de Andrade <[e-mail]>]

Sorry for being MIA (burning man, visiting family). I was planning on
getting on this after starting my new job (started on monday). I've got ~2
weeks of onboarding tasks to handle, then I will work on what I said I
would above. It looks like I might be responsible for front-end testing
here, so that should help :)

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Leon Timmermans <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Andrew de Andrade <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on some testing libraries for JavaScript based on TAP.
>> Specifically, I'm trying to explore making it possible for library authors
>> to not only check the results of their TAP tests, but also map-reduce the
>> TAP results of the dependents of their library to see how changes to their
>> library impact the correctness of their dependents.
>>
>> e.g. I am the author of library A. I publish version 0.1.0. Another
>> author includes my library as a dependency in library B and in library C
>> and uses TAP to test those libraries. Given this scenario, it would be nice
>> if I could, when modifying my library, run not only my tests, but also run
>> the tests of all my dependents built with my previous version and my
>> current version and compare how my changes impacted the "correctness" of
>> their programs.
>>
>> Beyond the benefits to a community, helping authors know when they can
>> likely safely upgrade their deps, this type of runner would also help in an
>> corporate environment with lots of code re-use between teams.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Furthermore, is there a standardized set of test fixtures for the current
>> version that any implementation can be tested against for correctness and
>> performance? Having worked a bit with JSON schema, I found that one of the
>> most useful tools was a standardized set of tests to check if a particular
>> implementation conforms to the protocol standard. (see:
>> https://github.com/json-schema/JSON-Schema-Test-Suite )
>>
>>
> I've been recently writing a TAP Harness, and for subtests I followed what
> Perl has been doing for years (just like TAP::Stream): have indented
> subtests follow by a non-indented summary line. None of this is described
> in detail anywhere though :-/, nor is the interaction with the barely
> defined YAMLish well-explored AFAIK.
>
> Leon
>



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