Autocontinue

Why do we need it?

The auto-continue logic was originaly created for one purpose: Testing long files inside Travis CI. As Travis CI session has a time limit of 45 minutes, it became vital for us to be able to stop and continue the test from where we were under those 45 minutes. This is how it started.

Today, - and it might be controversial - it is used by most people who aren’t under a Travis CI container to continue when the machine or tool crashes.

How does it work?

Note

Want to read the code ? It’s here: ContinueDatasetBase()!

We log every subject already tested previously and remove them completely when we are done with the test of the given file.

How to use it?

It is activated by default but you can simply change

cli_testing:
    autocontinue: False

to

cli_testing:
    autocontinue: True

into your personal .PyFunceble.yaml or use the --continue argument from the CLI to reactivate it.