Consider to run testrunner as a service and provide an API

[zoechi]

• watch the test directory for changes
• provide a list of tests/groups found (maybe with additional changes, browser/command line, tags)
• allow to run a set of tests
• provide the test result (progress)
• allow to subscribe to updates (notification for new/modified/deleted tests)

This would allow to easily build a nice GUI or control it from an IDE

[nex3]

This is a good idea. It's also a lot of work, but it's certainly something we'd like to do—or at least enable other packages to do—eventually.

[zoechi]

I started such a project a while ago but run into too many limitations with isolates and the unittest package and also with my datagrid which was the main part of the GUI so I dropped it. It might be worth to keep the idea in mind while you push the unittest forward. Maybe me or sombody else finds time to make a new attempt in this direction eventually.

[nex3]

The new architecture has a much cleaner backend representation of the tests, which should help with this sort of thing. We aren't planning to expose it until the frontend is more mature, but eventually it will provide an API that will help alternate runners like this one.

[zoechi]

Great :)

[zoechi]

Related to #48