TAP Philosophy

Universal desirable behaviors for parsers

• Should work on the TAP as a stream (i.e. as each line is received) rather than wait until all the TAP is received.
• The TAP source should be pluggable (i.e. don’t assume it’s always coming from a Perl program).
• The TAP display should be pluggable.
• Should be able to gracefully handle future upgrades to TAP.
• Should be forward compatible.
  • Ignore unknown directives
  • Ignore any unparsable lines