Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:15:15 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <20010612191515.66f607d1.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106112259510.32911-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> References: <p05100e20b74afe263e07@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106112259510.32911-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:05:53 -0400 (EDT)
Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> wrote:
CB> I'm sure plenty of developers would fire off an automated
CB> regression test suite if one existed. Building one is a nontrivial
CB> exercise (and is also viewed as unglamorous, unfortunately).
They also take maintenance like any other kind of software. Some of the
time when a test harness spits out a bucketload of error messages it is because
the test is wrong (usually makes too many assumptions). I have also found bugs
perpetuated by errors in regression test data on several occasions :(
The weakest link in a regression test system is the test data
generation.
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