Faster cider-test feedback

[r0man]

When running tests via clojure-test-mode it was nice that you got
instant feedback while running tests. A failing test at the
beginning of a test run could already be taken care of while
other tests were still running.

With cider-test you get the test results after all tests have
finished. Would it be possible to stream the test results back
ealier, while other tests are still running?

For larger projects this makes quiete a difference, and I wonder
if there's interest in restoring this behaviour?

Otherwise I quite like cider-test.

Thanks again for this, Roman.

[jeffvalk]

This might take some effort, but is certainly possible.

@r0man Out of curiousity, how long do your tests take for a single namespace?

[r0man]

@jeffvalk Some integration tests with databases, message queues etc involved take easily > 10sec :(

[bbatsov]

Guess it'd be nice we showed the progress of the tests with ...... (green dots per passing tests, red otherwise, as in xunit test frameworks).

[r0man]

Progress would be also nice. The most important thing to me is to see failing tests and their error message as early as possible.

[bbatsov]

Btw, if we get to implementing this we should probably add some option to fail fast (stop running the tests at the first failure).

[jeffvalk]

Following 51bf460, I rather expect this issue will get bumped.

[bbatsov]

Guess so. It seems to me like the most important thing related to tests that remains to be done.

[bbatsov]

@jeffvalk Do you plan to work on this eventually?

[jeffvalk]

At some point, sure. Can't promise it very soon though; I'm a bit short on time.

I should note that I've never personally needed this, so anyone who has is welcome to put in their two cents wrt user experience.

[bbatsov]

Sure. I was just going over some tickets a day ago and was wondering what's next for us. Unfortunately my time for CIDER was progressively dwindled as well.