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
>
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