[TIP] massive parallel testing in python

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:55:42 -0500, Noah Gift <noah.gift at gmail.com> 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:
>
>http://www.parallelpython.com/
>
>Is there anything pre-built that someone could recommend?  The Pyvix
>buildbot stuff seems interesting, but I am not sure if that directly
>applies for me.
>

There is an experimental/in-development implementation of this functionality
for Twisted's xUnit runner, Trial.  You can read more about it here:

  http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1784

Jean-Paul