Re: [boost] [testing] Refactoring serialization tests, and possibly others.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-24 04:49:44

"troy d. straszheim" <troy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> 
>> One thing I should make clear about my suggestion to reduce the 
>> combinations... Is that it doesn't mean reducing the number of types 
>> that get serialized, rather increasing those and having more complex and 
>> comprehensive test.
>
> I need to think about it more... for now, I carpet bomb.  But it clearly 
> would get out of control as types, archives, platforms and versions 
> proliferate.   No question.

Hi Troy,

It sounds like, from what Rene has said, it already is out of control.
Anything that makes it very difficult and/or expensive for a tester to
complete a testing run needs to be fixed rather urgently.  I hope you
realize that, and I think you probably do, but from your posting it
wasn't clear.

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Dave Abrahams
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