Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 7:27 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
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> > On 13 Jun 2024, at 00:34, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > FWIW, I felt a lot of pain trying to write recovery TAP tests with
> > IPC::Run's pumping functionality. It was especially painful (as
> > someone who knows even less Perl than the "street fighting Perl"
> > Thomas Munro has described having) before the additional test
> > infrastructure was added in BackgroudPsql.pm last year.
>
> A key aspect of this, which isn't specific to Perl or our use of it, is that
> this was done in backbranches which doesn't have the (recently) much improved
> BackgroundPsql.pm. The quality of our tools and the ease of use they provide
> is directly related to the investment we make into continuously improving our
> testharness. Regardless of which toolset we adopt, if we don't make this
> investment (taking learnings from the past years and toolsets into account)
> we're bound to repeat this thread in a few years advocating for toolset X+1.

True. And thank you for committing BackgroundPsql.pm (and Andres for
starting that work). My specific case is likely one of a poor work
person blaming her tools :)

- Melanie