On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:26:46AM +0200, nadim khemir wrote:
> Same for me. I simply didn't understand what the original mail meant. Not at
> all!
Apologies. There were some (dumb) typos that I didn't see when I
re-read the email, and I didn't do a very good job of illustrating what
the problem
* Ovid [2010-04-02 10:05]:
> It's an art to write a concise email which describes a problem.
> What I often find myself doing is writing a long email and then
> summarising at the bottom. When that's done, I often
> cut-n-paste the summary at the top of the email and only leave
> the rest if it is
--- On Fri, 2/4/10, Erik Osheim wrote:
> From: Erik Osheim
> > I assume either
> some code builds it
> > and others then need it or it's expensive to
> build? If it's the
> > former, it implies an ordering dependency and coupling
> in your tests
> > which greatly lowers their utility.
>
> It'
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> I see no one's answered this yet. I was hoping for more clarification
> lest my (mis)understanding hampers things. You have a large data
> structure to share across tests and I assume either some code builds it
> and others than need it or it
--- On Fri, 2/4/10, nadim khemir wrote:
> From: nadim khemir
> Same for me. I simply didn't understand what the original
> mail meant. Not at
> all!
It's an art to write a concise email which describes a problem. What I often
find myself doing is writing a long email and then summarising at
> I see no one's answered this yet. I was hoping for more clarification lest
my (mis)understanding hampers things. You have a large data structure to
share across tests and I assume either some code builds it and others than
need it or it's expensive to build? If it's the former, it implies an
--- On Wed, 31/3/10, Erik Osheim wrote:
> From: Erik Osheim
> So at $WORK we have a bunch of really
> large data (immutable) data
> structures which a ton of our source code uses. As such,
> most tests
> that we write need to access these data structures to run.
> These
> structures can't (curr
