On 2 November 2015 at 16:50, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe we really do, since I can remember a number of tickets where tests >> were removed or changed from the most useful versions because even the >> "long" tests were running more than X seconds in the file (for a smallish >> value of X, not 3600 or something). Then at least one could run the really >> long tests before a stable release. But many of those really do have great >> value for users even if it is impractical to run them every time tests are >> run. > > Hmmmmm.... It was once suggested (maybe by Jeroen?) that we could > have, for free, a decorator like that. Something like '# optional - > veryverylong'. Just add whatever tag you want after an 'optional' and > it will work. > > There are some tests that I run 'from time to time', especially in a > development phase (while a big module is being written) to make sure > that all results stay correct. To take the example of Strongly Regular > Graphs (SRG) that Jori mentionned, I run from time to time a script > that builds them all up to n=2000 (the same was done on combinatorial > designs). That's something I run to double-check what I do, but I > would feel guilty if I forced anybody but me to run it regularly. >
I agree. There are test runs which take an hour (say, just for the sake of argument) which I like to know still work -- or to see if after some other changes they now only take half an hour -- but that it much too long for a "long time" test. John > I don't know how such a type of test could be named, or whether this > name should be 'standard'. Just writing this to explain my situation, > in case it makes more sense to somebody else :-) > > Nathann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
