On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:02 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote: >Eliminating tests based on the time it takes to run them suggests that the >resulting smaller test run may have considerably different overall coverage >quality than you might desire. Some tests (syntax, basic arithmetic, etc) >probably run blazingly fast and will be fully covered by a "make nanotest", >while some really important stuff (anything which forks or creates sockets) >will have very poor nanotest coverage because many of its tests cases won't >be run. The odds that someone breaks syntax or basic arithmetic >functionality (or even changes those parts of the system) are pretty low, so >repeatedly running those tests simply because they run fast gives a false >sense of security.
Not if you keep in mind the appropriate use case for each of the separate make test targets. -Barry
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