From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 12 10:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A0037B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p160.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.200.124]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f5CHFIe12933; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:15:18 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:15:15 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Chris BeHanna 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: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:05:53 -0400 (EDT) Chris BeHanna 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. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message