Re: Bug#500671: ITP: pgtap -- Unit testing framework for PostgreSQL
Ben Pfaff dijo [Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:51:40AM -0700]:
> Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org> writes:
>
> > pgTAP is a suite of database functions that make it easy to write
> > TAP-emitting unit tests in psql scripts suitable for harvesting,
> > analysis, and reporting by a TAP harness, such as those used in Perl
> > and PHP applications.
>
> Please state briefly what a TAP is somewhere in the description.
> (To me, a TAP is a virtual Ethernet device, but I think that that
> is not what is meant here.)
FWIW, it looks it refers to the Test Anything Protocol. Some pointers
for it:
http://testanything.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol
http://www.szabgab.com/blog/2008/09/1220345643.html
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