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Subunit is a streaming protocol for test results.
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There are two major revisions of the protocol. Version 1 was trivially human
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readable but had significant defects as far as highly parallel testing was
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concerned - it had no room for doing discovery and execution in parallel,
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required substantial buffering when multiplexing and was fragile - a corrupt
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byte could cause an entire stream to be misparsed. Version 1.1 added
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encapsulation of binary streams which mitigated some of the issues but the core
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remained.
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Version 2 shares many of the good characteristics of Version 1 - it can be
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embedded into a regular text stream (e.g. from a build system) and it still
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models xUnit style test execution. It also fixes many of the issues with
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Version 1 - Version 2 can be multiplexed without excessive buffering (in time
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or space), it has a well defined recovery mechanism for dealing with corrupted
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streams (e.g. where two processes write to the same stream concurrently, or
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where the stream generator suffers a bug).
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WWW: http://launchpad.net/subunit
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