Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 03:38:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: perhaps@yes.no, terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regression tests (was Re: A 3.0-current SNAP building machine has been found!) Message-ID: <199705120138.DAA11210@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Sun, 11 May 1997 16:30:30 -0700 References: <199705111709.TAA06018@bitbox.follo.net> <476.863393430@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > Anyway; being able to do a 'make regress' on the entire FreeBSD > > source tree and know all new code and a lot of old code got tested > > would be a _good_ feeling. > > It sure would be. Pity it's such a hard problem to ensure that > everything is still obeying all the right flags and still generating > all the right output. :( Depends a bit on whether the design is done to make it easy to verify, but in the general case, I agree. However, a framework and just a regression for parts would still be an improvement. I'll try to come back to it when some other more-paying ideas for improving stability have been done... Eivind.
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