On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Deryck Hodge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Tim. > > Thanks for weighing in. > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Tim Penhey <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:18:32 Gary Poster wrote: >> The page tests often test workflows, which are getting more out of date with >> the addition of more ajax stuff, but I think it still has some, but limited, >> use. > > But this is my whole point exactly.... your own words: you *think* > they have *some* use. >
And a very good point it is too. I also challenge the usefulness of these tests. > We don't know the value of these tests or how much usefulness they > provide. We don't know the amount of coverage we actually get from > them. We have half or better of a four+ hour test run for these tests > and we have no way to assess the value of this cost. We have > developers avoiding page tests and windmill at all costs and no clear > story of even why we use them or what we expect from them. It seems > to me a short and controlled experiment is an easy way to get some > data on these questions. > Would you not get the same data by running the page & windmill tests separately as Gary suggests? jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
