On 21 Mar 2010, at 12:24, Robert Dionne wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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>> On 21 Mar 2010, at 12:10, Noah Slater wrote:
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>>> What are the CLI tests, if not the etap tests? Are they integrated into the 
>>> build system?
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>> The CLI tests are the same as the browser tests, just run through our 
>> couchjs binary
>> that has custom HTTP extensions to make the xhr work. At this point I don't 
>> think it
>> is reliable enough to mimic browser behaviour and that we shouldn't use it 
>> for vetting
>> the state of the code.
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> This is likely true, but in this particular case I think there's a bug in the 
> changes code (that I'm trying to dig out). It's nice that it works on your 
> machine but on my machine, using FF, it fails often enough. Moreover it's 
> been around for a long time now so I figure it's worth figuring out. 
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> I don't have a dog in this fight (.ie. a paying customer) so this failure 
> doesn't bother me. With respect to policy, given the various bogocities of 
> browsers, I'd recommend something like these CLI tests plus the etaps ought 
> to be the "official"  tests for vetting, and part of the build

Not that I disagree, but part (most?) of the appeal of the browser based tests 
are that they run in a real-world client instead of the lab that is 
couchjs+http :)

Cheers
Jan
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>> It is very useful when developing new code to not have to switch to and 
>> reload the
>> browser over and over again.
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>> Cheers
>> Jan
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>>> On 21 Mar 2010, at 17:05, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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>>>> On 21 Mar 2010, at 06:04, Robert Dionne wrote:
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>>>>> On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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>>>>>> On 20 Mar 2010, at 20:06, Paul Davis wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I think faulty test case should block the release, if I am to have any
>>>>>>>> future sanity preparing releases. I don't want to delay and longer, so 
>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>> you guys are absolutely sure this is a test error and not code error, 
>>>>>>>> then I
>>>>>>>> propose that the test be commented out. Our tests form a contract 
>>>>>>>> between
>>>>>>>> us, internally, and our users. If that contract has a bug, it should be
>>>>>>>> removed or fixed - or it simply dilutes the importance of contract. If 
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> one comments out the test, and we agree it is not indicative of an 
>>>>>>>> important
>>>>>>>> bug, I can call the vote within hours.
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd have to agree on this. From the point of view of a release, if a
>>>>>>> test reports a failure then it should be made to not report a failure.
>>>>>>> If that's accomplished by disabling it, then there will be a commit
>>>>>>> with a message that explains why it was disabled and etc and such on
>>>>>>> and so forth.
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>>>>>> I'd do that if the test was failing for me :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> it's not failing for you when you run changes.js with the CLI ?  Fails 
>>>>> for me every time. 
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>>>> I don't consider the CLI tests as part of the official test suite just yet.
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>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jan
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>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyway I poked at this a bit yesterday and am not 100% sure the issue is 
>>>>> in the test. I tried putting a sleep in with no luck. If my understanding 
>>>>> of the JS is correct, CouchDB is supposed to be synchronous so it's not 
>>>>> timing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If someone could comment on the test itself it would be helpful. The 
>>>>> section of the code that fails:
>>>>> 
>>>>> // changes get all_docs style with deleted docs
>>>>> var doc = {a:1};
>>>>> db.save(doc);
>>>>> db.deleteDoc(doc);
>>>>> var req = CouchDB.request("GET", 
>>>>> "/test_suite_db/_changes?filter=changes_filter/bop&style=all_docs");
>>>>> var resp = JSON.parse(req.responseText);
>>>>> TEquals(3, resp.results.length, "should return matching rows");
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>>>>> seems odd to me. all_docs as I read the code will return docs with 
>>>>> deletes and conflicts but in this call the filter bop will not apply to 
>>>>> the doc {a:1} so I'm not sure what this delete prior to the call is 
>>>>> about. Anyway I can make it fail in the debugger so perhaps I can find 
>>>>> the root cause.
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>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Jan
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