Re: Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:40 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Hmmm, chromatic lives in Beaverton... You take that back! I moved to Hillsboro. (Also, MAX doesn't stop anywhere near Krispy Kreme.) -- c

Re: Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:28:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Donuts ? Did you say donuts !? What kind ? Nearest Krispy Kreme is in Beaverton on RT 26 or Clackmas just off 205. Hmmm, chromatic lives in Beaverton... -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~sc

Re: Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread leif . eriksen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:48:43PM -0500, Bill Odom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I didn't think we were actually *calling* them Lightning Talks, but that does capture the spirit. Lots of topics, even more examples -- a very high-density presentation. Plus don

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:48:43PM -0500, Bill Odom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I didn't think we were actually *calling* them Lightning Talks, but > that does capture the spirit. Lots of topics, even more examples -- a > very high-density presentation. Plus donuts and dancing girls. -- Andy

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Bill Odom
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:07 PM, chromatic wrote: All session, no tutorial. It's Wednesday afternoon. We're doing Practical Testing Lightning Talks. I didn't think we were actually *calling* them Lightning Talks, but that does capture the spirit. Lots of topics, even more examples -- a very hig

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Kennedy
If I have somehow managed to imply I think we should junk the entire entire current testing infrastructure and force every tester in the world to move over to an image base testing system whether they want to or not, then "no I didn't mean that". But I figured that would be obvious... Adam K

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:52:40PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:49:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Because Andy would be far too polite to push the book he and Richard Foley > > wrote: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=399 > >

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Bill Odom
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:07 PM, chromatic wrote: All session, no tutorial. It's Wednesday afternoon. We're doing Practical Testing Lightning Talks. I didn't think we were actually *calling* them Lightning Talks, but that does capture the spirit. Lots of topics, even more examples -- a very hig

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:49:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Because Andy would be far too polite to push the book he and Richard Foley > wrote: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=399 That's because I didn't write it. I'm more a uber-tech-editor and helped

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:46:43PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:57:36AM -0700, Michael G Schwern ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Am I imagining things or was there supposed to be a testing tutorial at > > OSCON > > with Andy Lester, chromatic and the gang? Or am I thin

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:57:36AM -0700, Michael G Schwern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am I imagining things or was there supposed to be a testing tutorial at OSCON > with Andy Lester, chromatic and the gang? Or am I thinking of YAPC? No, it's not a tutorial. It's 90 minutes of random testing

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:33:29AM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > If I have somehow managed to imply I think we should junk the entire > entire current testing infrastructure and force every tester in the > world to move over to an image base testing system whether they want to > or not, then "no

Re: OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:57 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Am I imagining things or was there supposed to be a testing tutorial at OSCON > with Andy Lester, chromatic and the gang? Or am I thinking of YAPC? All session, no tutorial. It's Wednesday afternoon. We're doing Practical Testing Li

OSCON testing tutorial?

2005-07-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Am I imagining things or was there supposed to be a testing tutorial at OSCON with Andy Lester, chromatic and the gang? Or am I thinking of YAPC? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Also, it eliminates one of the valuable parts of CPAN testers: testing in the > wild. If you create an artificially clean environment (the clean image), > then install all the latest versions of dependent modules into it and then > run the tests you

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:21:19PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > The image-based platforms would be able to implement a fresh > from-the-base-install install of each module. This would also greatly > help to focus attention on modules that many many others rely on as a > dep that don't install ri

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Geoffrey Young
> (I deliberately > did *not* list IO::Capture as a prerequisite in Makefile.PL because I > didn't want to force users to install that module. I simply wanted them > to use it during testing and then throw it away. this is the start of the right attitude I think - when your testing environment r

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Kennedy
Michael G Schwern wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:49:12PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: The inference I drew was that the four false positives I received for v0.35 came from automated testing in an environment where IO::Capture was already installed, so that the test script did not need to fi

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:37:39PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:49:12PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > > Am I correct in this inference and this judgment? Or is there something > > about the automated testing that I don't understand? > > If I understand correctly