Re: [boost] Re: Regression tests: how long is reasonable?

From: William E. Kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-13 08:57:34

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> At 05:17 PM 8/12/2002, William E. Kempf wrote:
>
>  >> The trick would be to do it in a way that automates the introduction
> into
>  >> status tables.
>  >>
>  >> For example, say the boost::shared_ptr test program wrote this to
cout:
>  >>
>  >>      <metric type="space" description="shared_ptr<> size"
>  >>        unit="bytes" value="8"></metric>
>  >>
>  >> Then reporting programs which were interested in could include these
>  >> results in their output.  No cost to test programs which don't wish to
>  >> report any size, no cost to reporting programs which don't care to
> report
>  >> size metrics. No manual intervention.
>  >
>  >Contrary to the marketing of XML, that's really not a format that's very
>  >readable to users.
>
> But humans would not be the main readers.  Various post-process
converters,
> typically to HTML, would be the most common readers.

I disagree.  During development I run the Boost.Threads regression tests
extremely frequently, and would expect other developers do the same thing.
I rely on meaningful output from these tests.  Running the full regression
test procedure just to produce readable HTML for this is only going to slow
down my development.

Bill Kempf