Parallel Catch - Invokes philsquared/Catch tests in a parallel fashion (https://github.com/philsquared/Catch)

parallel_tests.sh

# runs tests in parallel
TEST_CMD="./build/test/run_unit_tests"
JOBS="8"

TAGS="$($TEST_CMD -l | grep Scenario -A 1 | grep -v Scenario | sort -u)"
IFS=' ' read -a SPLIT <<< $TAGS
NUM_TAGS=${#SPLIT[@]}

# so as to round up
PER_JOB=`expr $NUM_TAGS + $JOBS - 1`
PER_JOB=`expr $PER_JOB / $JOBS`

echo "$NUM_TAGS total tags / $PER_JOB per job"

tag=0
for j in $(seq 1 $JOBS)
do
  job=""
  for t in $(seq 1 $PER_JOB)
  do
    if [ "$tag" -ge "$NUM_TAGS" ]
    then
      continue
    fi

    if [ "$job" != "" ]
    then
      job="$job,"
    fi

    job="$job${SPLIT[$tag]}"
    tag=`expr $tag + 1`
  done

  echo $TEST_CMD $job
  $TEST_CMD $job&
done

wait
echo