The one interesting item here is that vCache actually appears to get *better* over time; I'm not entirely sure why that's the case or at what point the performance is going to level off since these tests were all run for 2 hours anyway, but I think the overall results still speak for themselves, and even with a vCache volume where the dirty ratio is only 10%, such as might be the case where a deployment has a massive data set size in relation to both the working set and the cache device …
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Official support for MiniTest v5. Fixes issue #156 . Thanks to Ryan Davis .
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After you get a copy of the files, add them into your project web root and include them directly or with the framework or application that you're already using (such as Zend Framework or Oxid eSales). Then you're ready to start testing.
The JavaScript Code
This isn't a complex example, but I believe it's enough to write some meaningful tests. The following code example creates a jQuery object that contains the properties and functions required to perform a basic …
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