On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:07:18 +0100, Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 23 Apr 2006, at 07:02, Andy Lester wrote: > [snip] > > I've removed the meaningless percentages of tests that have > > failed. If you rely on the output at the end, it's different now. > [snip] > > I'll just repeat what I left on Andy's blog here in case anybody > agrees with me. > > ---- > I don't like the change myself. I'm bright enough to figure out that > anything less than 100% pass is bad when developing. > > When using other peoples test suites seeing, for example, 99% ok > tells me something very different from seeing 3% ok. For me the > difference between "nearly there apart form this bit of functionality > that I don't care about" and "completely f**ked" is useful. Yes I can > figure it out from the test/pass numbers - but the percentage gives > me a handy overview. Math is hard! :-) > > Not something I feel /that/ strongly about - but I don't see the > utility of the change myself (beyond code simplification in T::H). > ---- > > (probably just me :-) I did not follow the rest of the conversation, but I strongly agree to the above statement. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
