RE: Project Mauve: A Free Java Regression Test and Compatibility Package

[John Keiser]

     It sounds like a good idea on the surface.  Combining all the
testsuites into one, at the very least, is a worthy goal, since we're all
testing the same thing.
     But as you say, *nobody* likes to write tests.  Pushing them off into
their own project seems like a convenient way to forget about them.  At
least as it stands now the authors have more reason to grudgingly accept
responsibility for it.  We could fall into what my work likes to call "unit
testing."  What this means, I have learned, is "I ran it and it didn't crash
the system, so it's ready for production."
     Dunno, seems worth a try at least; the combination of existing
testsuites is a worthy goal.  Go for it.
--John Keiser