diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 26d32b4..6dacb80 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -145,3 +145,15 @@ on the nvm tests. I wound up running this instead. The Molly guard would be assessed, and the corresponding setup, setup_dir, teardown, and teardown_dir files would be run in the appropriate order. + +Running automated tasks +------------------------- +Urchin might be appropriate for if you have lots of tasks that you want to run +periodically; add an urchin call to your crontab, and call all of your other +tasks with urchin. Here are some features that might make urchin better for +this sort of thing. + +* Time how long each test/job takes +* Optionally kill tests/jobs after a specific timeout threshold +* Send output of different tests/jobs to different files for each file + descriptor (STDOUT, STDERR)