Hi Jörg,

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Ause just informed me about another solution that might remove the need to have the test run on every CWS i.e. we wouldn't need to have the tests mandatory. His idea is to run the tests on the Master Workspace prior to announcing the CWS as "ready for CWS use". If a test fails then this would result in a P1 issue that has to be fixed before the MWS can be used by everyone. Very similar to how we handle it for the Smoketest on the MWS nowadays.

Additionally the list of tests to run would be checked in to CVS, so that we could disable a tests for every user on a given milestone if a fix cannot be done in time.

That way a developer could get an _optional_ means at hand of doing regression tests, with no obligation to always run these tests. If the developer feels that he should run the tests, then he could do so and invest the (machine) time. If he thinks that the tests will be no additional help, he just does not run them.

Of course the question then is how often such a regression happens. If we have to expect to have half a dozen P1 bugs each milestone due to the mass of regressions, then the "mandatory for every CWS" seems the better solution to me. But if we expect to have such a P1 bug from the automatic tests only once every 2 or 3 milestones (or hopefully even less often), then this seems an acceptable way to me.

Does that make sense?

No, from view of the QA team. Then they have to do the regressions tests
on the CWS as they do now. So we do not have any benefit from this solution.

Thorsten

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