TAP Philosophy

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[edit] Universal desirable behaviors for parsers

These are behaviors desired in all TAP parsers:

  • Should work on the TAP as a stream (ie. as each line is received) rather than wait until all the TAP is received.
  • The TAP source should be pluggable (ie. don't assume its always coming from a Perl program).
  • The TAP display should be pluggable.
  • Should be able to gracefully handle future upgrades to TAP.
  • Should be forward compatible.
    • Ignore unknown directives
    • Ignore any unparsable lines
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