Substeps does not support parallel running

[davemeetsworld]

We have a need to run our Substeps tests in parallel.

[iantmoore]

Thanks for the request!

I've actually started work on #12 which is a pre-requisite to any parallel running.. I hope to have something out soon for that..

This is quite a big task and might need breaking up a bit - to achieve this there'd need to be a a pool of runners (of confgurable size) and a mechanism to farm out features to the runners - I think splitting scenarios might be trickier. Initially I was thinking of creating an interface for this and a DefaultRoundRobinStrategy implementation set via config - this would allow folk to implement their own.

I'm interested to know a bit more about you're requirements though.

• separation between runners - separate threads, classloaders or separate VM's / hosts ? Are you running webdriver or something else (I ask because of separating out the webdriver instances)
• the same execution config for each runner or an ability for each runner to override config items (could be useful if each runner needed a different remote webdriver maybe?)