Can I control the execution order of VUnit testbenches? - vunit

I have several VUnit unit testbenches and a single top level testbench in my design projects. VUnit finds all my testbenches and executes them. I would like to control the order the testbenches are executed, so I can have the shorter testbenches execute first. Is this a feature available in VUnit?

No, there is no such feature but it would be possible to create a script that takes the previous test report, extracts timing information and run tests one by one in timing order.
I think you should open an issue for this on Github to get better built in support. There are also other related features that would be interesting, for example load balancing when running multiple threads.

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Customized json report for karate framework [duplicate]

I want to have an option on the cucumber report to mute/hide scenarios with a given tag from the results and numbers.
We have a bamboo build that runs our karate repository of features and scenarios. At the end it produces nice cucumber html reports. On the "overview-features.html" I would like to have an option added to the top right, which includes "Features", "Tags", "Steps" and "Failures", that says "Excluded Fails" or something like that. That when clicked provides the same exact information that the overview-features.html does, except that any scenario that's tagged with a special tag, for example #bug=abc-12345, is removed from the report and excluded from the numbers.
Why I need this. We have some existing scenarios that fail. They fail due to defects in our own software, that might not get fixed for 6 months to a year. We've tagged them with a specified tag, "#bug=abc-12345". I want them muted/excluded from the cucumber report that's produced at the end of the bamboo build for karate so I can quickly look at the number of passed features/scenarios and see if it's 100% or not. If it is, great that build is good. If not, I need to look into it further as we appear to have some regression. Without these scenarios that are expected to fail, and continue to fail until they're resolved, it is very tedious and time consuming to go through all the individual feature file reports and look at the failing scenarios and then look into why. I don't want them removed completely as when they start to pass I need to know so I can go back and remove the tag from the scenario.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
Karate 1.0 has overhauled the reporting system with the following key changes.
after the Runner completes you can massage the results and even re-try some tests
you can inject a custom HTML report renderer
This will require you to get into the details (some of this is not documented yet) and write some Java code. If that is not an option, you have to consider that what you are asking for is not supported by Karate.
If you are willing to go down that path, here are the links you need to get started.
a) Example of how to "post process" result-data before rendering a report: RetryTest.java and also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/67971681/143475
b) The code responsible for "pluggable" reports, where you can implement a new SuiteReports in theory. And in the Runner, there is a suiteReports() method you can call to provide your implementation.
Also note that there is an experimental "doc" keyword, by which you can inject custom HTML into a test-report: https://twitter.com/getkarate/status/1338892932691070976
Also see: https://twitter.com/KarateDSL/status/1427638609578967047

Is there any way to execute repeatable flyway scripts first?

We use flyway since years to maintain our DB scripts, and it does a wonderful job.
However there is one single situation where I am not really happy - possibly someone out there has a solution:
In order to reduce the number of scripts required (and also in order to keep overview about "where" our procedures are defined) I'd like to implement our functions/procedures in one script. Every time a procedure changes (or a new one is developed) this script shall be updated - repeatable scripts sound perfect for this purpose, but unfortunately they are not.
The drawback is, that a new procedure cannot be accessed by non-repeatable scripts, as repeatable scripts are executed last, so the procedure does not exist when the non-repeatable script executes.
I hoped I can control this by specifying different locations (e.g. loc_first containing the repeatables I want to be executed first, loc_normal for the standard scripts and the repeatables to be executed last).
Unfortunately the order of locations has no impact on execution order ;-(
What's the proper way to deal with this situation? Right now I need to specify the corresponding procedures in non-repeatable scripts, but that's exactly what I'd like to avoid ....
I found a workaround on my own: I'm using flyway directly with maven (the same would work in case you use the API of course). Each stage of my maven script has its own profile (specifiying URL etc.)
Now I create two profiles for every stage - so I have e.g. dev and devProcs.
The difference between these two maven profiles is, that the "[stage]Procs" profile operates on a different location (where only the repeatable scripts maintaining procedures are kept). Then I need to execute flyway twice - first with [stage]Procs then with [stage].
To me this looks a bit messy, but at least I can maintain my procedures in a repeatable script this way.
According to flyway docs, Repeatable migrations ALWAYS execute after versioned migration.
But, I guess, you can use Flyway callbacks. Looks like, beforeMigrate.sql callback is exactly what you need.

Why do require to change code runtime?

I found many languages provides some way to change code runtime. Many people ask queries regarding how to change code in this or that language runtime. Here I mean by change code is that rewrite code itself at runtime by using reflection or something else.
I have around 6 year of experience in Java application development. I never come again any problem where I have to change code at time.
Can anyone explain why we require to change code at runtime?
I have experienced three huge benefits of changing code at runtime:
Fixing bugs in a production environment without shutting down the application server. This allowed us to fix bugs on just some part of the application without interrupting the whole system.
Possibility of changing the business rule without having to deploy a new version of the application. A quicker deploy of features.
Writing unit test is easier. For example, you can mock dependencies, add some desired behaviour to some objects and etc. Spock Framework does well this.
Of course, we had this benefits because we have a very well defined development process on how to proceed on this situations.
At times you may need to call a method based on the input, that was received earlier in the program.
It could be used for dynamic calculation of value based on the key index, where every key is calculated in a different way or calculation requires fetching required data from different sources. Instead of using switch statement you can invoke a method dynamically using methodName+indexOfTheKey.

Use Julia to perform computations on a webpage

I was wondering if it is possible to use Julia to perform computations on a webpage in an automated way.
For example suppose we have a 3x3 html form in which we input some numbers. These form a square matrix A, and we can find its eigenvalues in Julia pretty straightforward. I would like to use Julia to make the computation and then return the results.
In my understanding (which is limited in this direction) I guess the process should be something like:
collect the data entered in the form
send the data to a machine which has Julia installed
run the Julia code with the given data and store the result
send the result back to the webpage and show it.
Do you think something like this is possible? (I've seen some stuff using HttpServer which allows computation with the browser, but I'm not sure this is the right thing to use) If yes, which are the things which I need to look into? Do you have any examples of such implementations of web calculations?
If you are using or can use Node.js, you can use node-julia. It has some limitations, but should work fine for this.
Coincidentally, I was already mostly done with putting together an example that does this. A rough mockup is available here, which uses express to serve the pages and plotly to display results (among other node modules).
Another option would be to write the server itself in Julia using Mux.jl and skip server-side javascript entirely.
Yes, it can be done with HttpServer.jl
It's pretty simple - you make a small script that starts your HttpServer, which now listens to the designated port. Part of configuring the web server is that you define some handlers (functions) that are invoked when certain events take place in your app's life cycle (new request, error, etc).
Here's a very simple official example:
https://github.com/JuliaWeb/HttpServer.jl/blob/master/examples/fibonacci.jl
However, things can get complex fast:
you already need to perform 2 actions:
a. render your HTML page where you take the user input (by default)
b. render the response page as a consequence of receiving a POST request
you'll need to extract the data payload coming through the form. Data sent via GET is easy to reach, data sent via POST not so much.
if you expose this to users you need to setup some failsafe measures to respawn your server script - otherwise it might just crash and exit.
if you open your script to the world you must make sure that it's not vulnerable to attacks - you don't want to empower a hacker to execute random Julia code on your server or access your DB.
So for basic usage on a small case, yes, HttpServer.jl should be enough.
If however you expect a bigger project, you can give Genie a try (https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl). It's still work in progress but it handles most of the low level work allowing developers to focus on the specific app logic, rather than on the transport layer (Genie's author here, btw).
If you get stuck there's GitHub issues and a Gitter channel.
Try Escher.jl.
This enables you to build up the web page in Julia.

libuv event loop in qt

Is there a way without using multiple threads?
I found this https://stackoverflow.com/a/17329626/4014896
But i don't get how it works. Shouldn't it cause 100% CPU usage in the example?
and how can I embed it, for example, into QT?
there is also this: https://github.com/svalaskevicius/qt-event-dispatcher-libuv
But there is no documentation at all.
But from my looks it seems to be something that translates from example QSocket to uv_tcp_socket which is not what I'm searching for.
In short - you'll either need to merge the two event loops or use separate threads and sync the event handlers manually..
The first link you pasted shows how to process libuv events that have happened since the last invocation. The while stated there will use ~100% CPU if there are no events dispatched (as it will just keep polling).
The second link (qt-event-dispatcher-libuv) is a project I've created to tackle the same problem. It does, however, work as you described - by using libuv to handle Qt's event loop (and by doing that - merges the two event loops into one).
To use it you'd just need to register the event dispatcher in your application using http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qcoreapplication.html#setEventDispatcher. An example where this library is used - https://github.com/svalaskevicius/qtjs-generator/blob/master/src/runner/main.cpp#L179
There is still one catch using this approach - while it works very well on linux, there are some problems on OS X as the Qt's Cocoa platform support plugin handles some Cocoa's event loop operations and doesn't provide a nice API to merge it as well (currently its updating them one its freed up after a small timeout so there is some (barely?) noticeable lag to handle the GUI events) - I was planning to port the platform support plugin to be able to integrate it as well but that's still in future. And I haven't tested it on windows yet :)
An alternative solution could probably be to try to merge the two loops from another direction that I've done - instead of making Qt to use libuv, libuv's api could be provided that uses Qt's handlers - although it requires a considerable amount of work as well.
Please let me know if there is any more info I could provide.
Regards,

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