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-#! /usr/bin/env perl
-################################################################################
-##
-## Copyright 2006 - 2015, Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez.
-##
-## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-## of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-## in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-## to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-## copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-## furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-##
-## The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
-## in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-##
-## THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
-## OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
-## THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-## LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-## OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-## SOFTWARE.
-##
-## http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-##
-################################################################################
-
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use Test::More tests => 7;
-
-# Ensure environment has no influence.
-delete $ENV{'TASKDATA'};
-delete $ENV{'TASKRC'};
-
-use File::Basename;
-my $ut = basename ($0);
-my $rc = $ut . '.rc';
-
-# Create the rc file.
-if (open my $fh, '>', $rc)
-{
-  print $fh "data.location=.\n",
-            "confirmation=off\n";
-  close $fh;
-}
-
-# Bug 987 - 'Total active time' is still increasing when a task is done
-
-# Test all cases for which the active duration must be close to zero and
-# constant:
-# - start (a), stop (o), done (d) and none (n)
-#   (none disallows the name of each task to be the prefix of any other)
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_aodn};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_aodn start};
-qx{faketime -f '+1s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_aodn stop};
-qx{faketime -f '+2s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_aodn done};
-check_constant_close_zero("test_aodn");
-
-# - start and done
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_adn};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_adn start};
-qx{faketime -f '+1s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_adn done};
-check_constant_close_zero("test_adn");
-
-# - start, done and stop
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_adon};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_adon start};
-qx{faketime -f '+1s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_adon done};
-qx{faketime -f '+2s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_adon stop};
-check_constant_close_zero("test_adon");
-
-# - done, start and stop (XXX whether this should be allowed is questionable)
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_daon};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_daon done};
-qx{faketime -f '+1s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_daon start};
-qx{faketime -f '+2s' ../src/task rc:$rc test_daon stop};
-check_constant_close_zero("test_daon");
-
-# Test all cases for which the active duration must not be shown:
-# - done
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_dn};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_dn done};
-check_no_summary("test_dn");
-
-# Test all case for which the active duration must be close to zero and
-# increasing:
-# - start
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_sn};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_sn start};
-check_running_close_zero("test_sn");
-
-# - done and start (XXX whether this should be allowed is questionable)
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc add test_dsn};
-qx{../src/task rc:$rc test_dsn start};
-check_running_close_zero("test_dsn");
-
-unlink qw(pending.data completed.data undo.data backlog.data), $rc;
-exit 0;
-
-################################################################################
-# Check that the active time is not above one minute after waiting for one minute
-sub check_constant_close_zero {
-  my ($task) = @_;
-  my $output = qx{faketime -f '+60s' ../src/task rc:$rc $task info};
-  like ($output, qr/Total active time 0:00:/ms, 'Total active duration is not increasing and is close to zeo');
-}
-
-# Check that there is no active time summary
-sub check_no_summary {
-  my ($task) = @_;
-  my $output = qx{faketime -f '+10s' ../src/task rc:$rc $task info};
-  unlike ($output, qr/Total active time/ms, 'No total active duration summary');
-}
-
-# Check that the active time is above one minute after waiting for one minute
-sub check_running_close_zero {
-  my ($task) = @_;
-  my $output = qx{faketime -f '+60s' ../src/task rc:$rc $task info};
-  like ($output, qr/Total active time 0:01:/ms, 'Total active duration is increasing and is close to zero');
-}