PSA: mtf::InProcessServer exists
Christopher James Halse Rogers
chris at cooperteam.net
Thu Mar 20 23:19:55 UTC 2014
Hey all!
In conversation with Robert just now I discovered he wasn't aware of
the existence of mtf::InProcessServer.
If you're ever writing tests which need to exercise client<->server
communication, this should be your go-to fixture. It's got a number of
advantages:
1) It doesn't rely on the filesystem at all, so it can't leave
droppings behind. This *also* means that tests using InProcessServer
can be run in parallel, and being able to run our testsuite in parallel
would give us a 4x-8x speedup on most peoples' machines for free.
2) It's much easier to debug tests with gdb (and, to a lesser extent,
valgrind)
There are some tests for which InProcessServer isn't appropriate -
tests of the filesystem-socket are an obvious example - but for most
tests it's an improvement.
Chris
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