Notes from the testing BOF at the summit

[Zack Weinberg]

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>> I don't think you're following me .. :-) We're talking about _parallel
>> testing_.
>> 
>> Ben
>
>   Well, if you use parallelism in the makefile and use that command line
> syntax to subdivide the tests into a bunch of subsets that can be run in
> parallel.... doesn't that basically give you what you want?

Unfortunately not; in particular, the .log and .sum files are garbled
if run in this fashion.  Also, sometimes there are race conditions in
the creation of supplementary files.

zw