Jörg Jahnke wrote:

> Hi Mathias,
> 
> Mathias Bauer schrieb:
>>
>> So again: I want to get a good compromise between effort (hours to run)
>> and result (coverage of code that is known to be prone to regressions).
>> So before I can agree to any regression testing I must know if this
>> testing really investigates the parts of the code that are known to be
>> prone to regressions. This has to been proven for the tests you seem to
>> suggest.
> 
> I agree that a good compromise between effort and result should be
> found. But you seem to miss the point that the planned tests are not
> meant to do Unit Testing but are on a different level of testing, which
> is System Testing (up into the area of Integration Testing). Do you
> doubt that these levels of testing are useful?

I don't miss that point. I just first want to check if the suggested
tests are the best we can do and I think that we should concentrate our
integration tests on the areas where we know that regressions happen
quite often.

I think you know the joke: A man looks for his lost key under a
streetlamp though he lost it in a dark corner some meters away. When he
is asked why he does so he answers: "Because I can see much better here!"

I want to avoid that we will do exactly this: searching for something
else somewhere else just because we don't know how to find what we
*really* want to find. I can't understand why this is so hard to grasp.

Ciao,
Mathias

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