Re: [boost] Draft of Test Policy web page

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-29 13:47:16

At 01:26 PM 1/29/2001 -0500, Jeremy Siek wrote:

 >I have a concern about the requirement that the tests must execute
 >quickly.
 >
 >For example, the current graph test only tests one version of the
 >adjacency_list class, but I was planning on adding code this week to make
 >sure all the versions of adjacency_list get tested in the regression 
test.
 >The problem is that there are 48 different versions of adjacency_list.
 >
 >Also, when I finally get unit tests in place for all of the algorithms,
 >there will be another 40 or so tests.
 >
 >Should the regressions test be divided into a "quick test" and
 >a "full test"?

Good point.

The "quick" or "basic" tests need to establish a level of confidence, but 
just can't go on very long.

On some libs, a "full test" may be plenty quick enough for inclusion in the 
main regression test.  So maybe we can find a better name for those.

--Beman