Testing and concurrency

[Luís Oliveira]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Eli Naeher <enaeher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I've begun writing tests which need to do things in several
> threads. I'm curious as to what approaches other people have taken when
> doing this, and whether any of the CL test frameworks address this situation
> specifically.

I don't have much experience with lparallel yet, but I think it
provides the building blocks you're looking for.

> - detecting, handling, and reporting conditions that are raised in threads
> other than the main test/reporting thread

http://lparallel.org/handling/


> - ensuring that the main test thread waits for the other threads before
> checking for the correct results (and before returning)

http://lparallel.org/promises/ (or possibly other constructs depending
on your concrete use case)


> - forcing things in different threads to happen at the same time (I've been
> using SBCL's timers for this)

Queues or channels might help here.

HTH,

-- 
Luís Oliveira
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