Re: [pypy-dev] Improving the documentation on how we test

2017-12-11 Thread Antonio Cuni
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > we require and have always required app-level tests for every new > feature up to the finer details. The CPython test suite is often not > very thorough, and we often work under the assumption that if our own > tests about a feature w

Re: [pypy-dev] Improving the documentation on how we test

2017-12-11 Thread Carl Friedrich Bolz
Hi Manuel, we require and have always required app-level tests for every new feature up to the finer details. The CPython test suite is often not very thorough, and we often work under the assumption that if our own tests about a feature work, the feature works. The coding guide states that alrea

Re: [pypy-dev] Improving the documentation on how we test

2017-12-10 Thread Eli Stevens (Gmail)
It's not clear if you're looking for input from the peanut gallery, but here is my $0.02: First test at the level of the feature as exposed to a user. This makes sense to write before implementation starts, and is highly unlikely to change if the implementation gets refactored. It sounds like your

[pypy-dev] Improving the documentation on how we test

2017-12-10 Thread Manuel Jacob
Hi, I'm currently implementing PEP 526 [1], which requires additions to the interpreter from the parser down to the bytecode interpreter. Since this is a common task, I want to expand the documentation a bit, adding a "how to extend the interpreter" recipe. One thing which I wasn't 100% sur