Roadmap

The Roadmap of Sparrow6 project development.

Done

• Perl/Bash tasks

• test.pl6 - embedded test support ( aka m10 - METEN minimalistic embedded test engine )

• multiroot story support ( ability to run multi root stories )

• ignore_story_err implementation

• set_stdout implementation

• ignore_error() instead of ignore_story_err()

• implement cwd attribute

• implement purge-cache

• Add self!set-sparrow-root(); to Sparrow6::SparrowHub::API constructor

• s6 - install/search/list plugin

• freeze SparrowHub index for Sparrow/Perl5, disable upload action

• read config support (set-conf/conf/SP6_CONF)

• sudo support

• Implement os() function

• Rewrite resources/sparrow6common.pm to Perl6

• Port Sparrowdo::DSL to Sparrow6::DSL

• Sparrowdo - convert outthentic tests to regular tests

• Sparrowdo - support for config

• Sparrow6::Task::Runner::Api story => task renaming

• Sparrowdo copy local files

• Regexp interpolation

• Sequences, Ranges, Withins

• Streams for Sequences, Ranges and Withins

• Handle comments inside code/generators correctly

• Port Otthentic::DSL tests to Sparrow6

• Don't allow nested contexts

• Task states ( ability to exchange data between tasks - implimented for Perl )

• Ruby support

• Python support

• Document Sparrow6::Task::Check

• S6 - --repo-init command

• Document task states

• Ruby plugins, bundle install test

• Rename sparrow.index to index

• module_run added

• Powershell support

• Renaming: suite.yaml => config.yaml

• Renaming: story* => task*

• Renaming: story => task

• Renaming: story.check => task.check

• Rewrite Sparrow client to s6 ( Sparrow::S6 )

• Switch Tomtit to Updated Sparrowdo version ( github master branch )

• Switch Sparrowdo to Updated Sparrowdo version ( github master branch )

• SparrowHub reference removed from docs

• modules/ => tasks/ renaming

• ignore_task_err => ignore_task_error renaming

• story_run => task_run renaming

• story_var => task_var renaming

• Consider lightweight SparrowHub alternative ( Azure free host, domain ) - http://repo.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com

• Create information on SparrowHub retirement - reddit

• s6 cli module-run added

• Documenting repo.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com

• Perl6 support ( after renaming )

• Args stringification

Urgent

• Reconsider Sparrowdo bootstrap ( need to remove some packages from there - git, perl ? )

New syntax / renaming

• target_os() => os() # implemented but should be documented

• meta.txt => task.txt (???)

• sparrow.json => sparrow6.json (?)

New features

These features are almost done, just list them here

• Task states ( ability to exchange data between tasks )

• config.pl6 support (???)

• m10

• streams # streams presented as a Hash ( need to document )

• streams_arrays # streams presented as an Array ( need to document )

• dump_streams ( implemeted for Perl, need to document )

• note: expressions ( done, need to document )

• m10 ( need to add more helpers )

• Low priority - document Sparrow6::Task::Runner Class

• Low priority - document m10 feature ( METEN - Minimalistic Embedded Testing Engine )

• Low priority - s6 --install install plugin without plugin name ( read data from sparrow.json in CWD )

Documentation

• hook set_stdout gets merged with task stdout in ( implimented, need to document )

• task check is not triggered if there is no task ( implimented, need to document ) - breaking changes

Questionable

• Sparrowdo - Sparrow6::DSL::Assert - workaround for input_param method

• Sparrowdo - support for target_host

• Sparrowdo - cwd cli support ( do we need it? )

• Sparrowdo - vagrant support ( do we need it ? )

• Sparrowdo - git ( Sparrlets support, do we need it ? )

• Sparrowdo - var=name=value command line support

• Sparrowdo - module_run, task_run cli options support

• Deprecate set_stdout (???), hook stdout should contribute to task stdout (???)

• Don't allow generators/codes if check failures (???)

• Handle code failures in task checks (???)

• Impliment cwd parameter for Sparrow6 tasks

• Use api/v2 instead of api/v1

• meta.txt support

• Supporting outthentic messages

• Color/nocolor output

• Dry run support (??? is it possible with Sparrow6? I doubt)

• suite.json config support

Medium priority

• Port existed Sparrowdo:: Modules to Sparrow6

• Adjust existing Sparrow plugins ( documentation fixes, compatibility with Sparrow6 core )

• Plugins - fix Perl5 generators as Array refs

• Write tests for Ruby common libraries - root-dir/common.rb

• Write tests for Powershell streams support

Low priority

• s6 cli - save / restore tasks

• Task descriptions (task.txt)

• dump_streams() implimentation for Ruby, Python, Powershell

• Windows support ( run stories, run hooks )

• Catch stderr for hooks/stories (?)

• Don't strip comments from one-line code and generator expressions

Other tools support

• Switch Sparky to Updated Sparrowdo version ( done partly, need to check )

• Port Sparrowform to Sparrow6

• Make Old Sparrowhub plugins compatible with Sparrow6

Breaking changes

• SparrowHub is removed

• truncating to the match_l is removed, we reports check results as is, even for really long matched strings (examples/match-length.pl6)

• :blank is deprecated, you should use regexp: ^^ \s* $$ instead

• suite.ini, suite.json are not supported

• story.pm files are not supported

• task recursive execution is not supported

• outthentic_die, outthentic_exit functions are not supported

• old reports formats ("production, default, concise") are not supported

• private plugins supports dropped in favor of private repositories