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authorRobert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>2012-12-19 21:08:37 +1300
committerRobert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>2012-12-19 21:08:37 +1300
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@@ -186,9 +186,11 @@ partition per test. For instance in .test.conf::
Would tell testr to use concurrency of 2.
When running tests in parallel, testrepository tags each test with a tag for
-the worker that executed the test. The tags are of the form ``worker-%d`` and
-are usually used to reproduce test isolation failures, where knowing exactly
-what test ran on a given backend is important.
+the worker that executed the test. The tags are of the form ``worker-%d``
+and are usually used to reproduce test isolation failures, where knowing
+exactly what test ran on a given backend is important. The %d that is
+substituted in is the partition number of tests from the test run - all tests
+in a single run with the same worker-N ran in the same test runner instance.
To find out which slave a failing test ran on just look at the 'tags' line in
its test error::