On Sunday 28 November 2004 02:14 CET Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> "Malte S. Stretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think I found something to kill some time on: Cleaning up the test
> > framework.
>
> Kill some time? You realize there are hundreds of open bugs? :-)
Yeah, and each of them would require more time than I could spend (I already
have three bugs or so assigned to me since a few months...) I just need
something I can hack on freely from time to time to distract me from other
projects with fixed time tables and stuff.
> > So I'd like to keyword some of the tests as "basic" (or whatever
> > keyword) and only those tests are run per default. All other tests
> > would be used by us devs, people who we ask to debug one of their bug
> > reports aund the BuildBots.
>
> No more options, please. And there's no reason to speed it up for
> users because users only run "make test" once in a while.
My idea was that per default all tests are run (except everything which
requires further set-up or can fail easily like net tests or SQL). But
additionally I'd like to add a bunch of Unit tests over time which, if it
works out, would test each and every routine we have (ok, exaggerated, but
it should at least test each public interface with at least ten test cases
or so). And those would really add up in time and I already heard many
people complaining about how long the tests take (... took since I disabled
them in the default Gentoo ebuild).
> I just don't have much of an issue with the test framework and I don't
> want to complicate things. Cleaner is always a fine goal, but this
> hasn't been a major pain point relatively speaking IMO.
Cheers,
Malte
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