XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 6/30/05, Mascolino, Mark R. <mark.mascolino AT hp.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > > > http://www.clarkware.com/software/JUnitPerf.html
> > >
> > > How does this handle varying system speeds? i.e. if the
> > tests were run
> > > on two machines, one twice as fast as the other, could they pass on
> > > the faster system and fail on the slower?
> > > Ideally I'd like the tests to be relative to some
> > underlying measure
> > > of speed rather than absolute numbers.
> >
> >
> > As far as I know, it does not take system speed into
> > consideration.  So
> > tests could pass on a fast machine and fail on a slow machine.
> >
> 
> I'm pretty positive that profiliers like Jprobe offer APIs and Ant tasks
> so that the profiling runs can be automated.  While I am not so sure
> that you can easily make comparisons across different hardware setups
> with this approach, it still would allow you to do regression analysis
> between runs.  Bt hey, this is all theoretical since I've been happy
> with XOM's compliance/performance balance.

ant's xml result formatter of junit tests saves exec times to the .xml
file...maybe all we need is a bit of file parsing and comparison
checks. Now, who knows how to do that?