[TIP] massive parallel testing in python

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi Noah,

Noah Gift wrote:
> I have another "thing" I am working on where I am interesting in doing  
> massive parallel testing as a current series of thousands of tests  
> takes over 24 hours.  I am extremely ignorant of open source tools in  
> Python that do this already, but one Idea I had was to use parallel  
> python and to setup a bunch of testing nodes:

FWIW, py.test has an experimental feature that does this:

https://codespeak.net/py/dist/test.html#automated-distributed-testing

PyPy uses it quite extensively, since our test runs are quite 
time-consuming too.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich