Yes, it is just a way to format test results. It's something from the Perl world, and so most of the tools to do anything useful with it are therefore Perl oriented. It's fairly limited in the amount of information it can convey - just a test number, a status, and an optional description. Not even a title for the tests. The JUnit XML format is probably far more useful for Pharo. (Though it's probably not a perfect match either) Regards, Stuart On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> wrote:

Noting that this is described as a protocol, I started to ask what any transport might be, and whether that could be abused???  Lots of dead links, so it was not clear whether this involves sockets.   All I found so far is what looks like a way to format test results, which sounds harmless and potentially helpful.

________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of csrabak@bol.com.br [csrabak@bol.com.br] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:20 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] Test Anything Protocol

Folks,

I'm readying a proposal and came across this, which at first seemed as joke, then a typo or placeholder for some other item in the spec, then I learned it exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol http://testanything.org/

Do you think Pharo would profit supporting this?

-- Cesar Rabak