Hi David,

How volatile is this test and how hard to fix it when it breaks? Can mere mortals help out here? Do you think that, with a little more work, it's feasible to drop this into the nightly test run some day? I'm not speculating about who might want to scratch that itch, just wondering how gnarly this is.

Thanks,
-Rick

David Van Couvering wrote:

The problem with running it as nightlies is that it is liable to fail at compile time when new messages are added -- I regularly have to update the sed script to adjust for these new messages. I would hate to have the build fail because of this.

If you have any ideas, let me know, but that was the reason I didn't suggest it for nightlies.

David

Kathey Marsden wrote:

David Van Couvering wrote:

There's a test I'd like to see run as part of release verification.


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This involves a lot of substitution work, and each time new SqlExceptions are introduced, it tends to require some tweaking


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I could run this test myself as part of my validation of the release, but it would be great to have this documented as one of the tests to run.

If there are no objections, I can add a link to instructions on how to run it off of the general "how to cut a release" page.

It seems like since this test is sensitive to individual changes and it might expose issues that would hold up the release, running it as part of making the release might be a bit late. It would be best if we could get folks running nightlies to add this in. That way it doesn't become a fire drill at release time.

Kathey




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