[boost] Re: Re: [1.33.0] Let's start preparations...

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-01 20:46:26

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:000601c53704$45a0f360$6501a8c0_at_pdimov2...
> Doug Gregor wrote:
>> On Mar 11, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Misha Bergal wrote:
>>
>>> * When developer checks something in - she should see the results of
>>>   that checkin ASAP. Something like telling the testing system, test
>>>   me my library on all toolsets and return be the results, quick!
>>
>> This takes more hardware than we currently have access to, so it's not
>> very high priority to me.
>
> It is high priority to me, provided that it also works for male 
> developers, of course. I've been trying to switch to a test-first 
> development mode, but awaiting the results of the previous round of 
> testing prevents me from working as quickly as I'd have liked.

"test-first" really does help. I normally develop under Windows, but have 
installed Linux on an old machine, and also bought a cute little Mac Mini's 
to test on Mac OS X. Being able to cycle tests quickly on all three 
platforms really does speed multi-platform development.

If we put Boost's collective mind to it, perhaps we can come up with a way 
to cycle tests much more quickly. I suspect we can find the machine 
resources, particularly if we can make the testing process robust enough 
that the test framework can be started, and then forgotten for months at a 
time.

--Beman