Disttest runs unittests for a project in parallel across several slave computers. It uses SSH and assumes a common filesystem on the slave computers, e.g., NFS.
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Disttest is a distributed unittest runner for software developers. Its main idea is to split the set of tests to run among several homogeneous slave nodes, resulting in an almost linear speed-up in the number of nodes used, making it ideal for e.g. university of company settings with a lot of mostly-idle computers. It accomplishes this by SSHing to each slave and starting a helper program (disttest-slave), which listens to commands from the master node. Then the master node distributes the tests. It tries to schedule the tests so that all nodes are used as effectively as possible. NOTE: disttest assumes the tests and the developer's program reside on a common filesystem, e.g. NFS, so that the slave nodes can execute the tests built on the master node. X11 support is included by optionally creating a fake X server on every slave node. The command-line interface is very simple and documentation in the form of man pages is provided. Disttest can also be used from cronjobs. Initial SourceForge release. Comments very welcome!
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