parallel-phpunit-executor

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What is that thing for

Provide a dramatically fast and memory safe way to execute phpunit tests in parallel.

Desidered workflow

• given a folder and a batch size, split the test files in chunks.
  • each chunk must have a unique identifier
• find (or request as input), the phpunit config file
  • duplicate and encode chunks as test suites
• for a given parallelism N, execute N workers to work on the chunks X. Each worker will tackle a chunk at time:
  • execute phpunit on the chunk
  • gather junit report and cobertura coverage report
• merge results
  • merge junit files
  • merge cobertura files
• create other artifacts
  • create html and txt report from merged cobertura

Other notes

• as soon as a worker ends with a chunk, it should pass to another one
• output interleaving: the simples way is to wait for a worker to finish to print its output
• maybe there is a way to directly interface with PHP world and phpunit internals, but it's way to early to think about that