You will excuse this duplication of topic forking. :) It was sent before the issue was taken to a new thread, but held up in moderation.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It is only unstable in certain environments and we are constantly >> improving all tests to be more stable in all environments, but the browser >> world is harsh :) >> >> I'd still consider having the test better than not having it at all :) >> > > I disagree, of course. :) > > Unstable tests are a massive problem, because they reduce the overall trust > we have in the test suite. For a test suite to be meaningful, it needs to be > a rock solid contract between the developers and the testers, or users. I > think I'm preaching to the choir here though. As far as I understand it, the > current goal is to move the test suite to a CLI version, and morph the Futon > tests into a high-level sanity check. >
