Hey Chris, On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 23:08 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > What if multiple people donated small backup tarball files for the > databases we support? Rigging up an automated test suit that would > parse, and perhaps build, the databases would make testing easy, and > almost part of the build.
The big problem with having donated data for testing is apart from a security issue, we'd also not be sure of what we're testing, not completely sure of what features and such the blackberry supports and how to translate them. We'd effectively be trading in a knowledge of the data structure for real world data. Both perhaps are useful since problems in the real world data would allow you to improve the known data sets. I do love the idea of having real world data though, and it should be kept up to date too. Now that I think about it I'm more sure of having both in place. Real World Tests -> Clean World Tests -> Data Transition Verified. Martin, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
