Re: [boost] Beta posted for new regression tests

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-23 11:01:10

From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>

>  >2. A view which sorts tests by some measure of the failure rate, so
that
> we
>  >can see something about which tests are failing.
>
> You mean like compute the percent of tests failing for a library, and
then
> sort on that?

Something like that. Getting the right criteria will probably take some
experience.

>  >3. A view which shows only the changes since some earlier snapshot of
the
>  >test XML, so we can easily make sure we're not breaking something new
and
>  >we've fixed the parts we intended to.
>
> Yes, that is definitively on my wish list.  The XML is persistent, so it
is
> easy to keep track of past state.  The trick is to only keep track as of
> certain points in time, like maybe "last release", "last week",
> "yesterday", "prior".  I'm still trying to work that out.

Cool, you da man.

-Dave