[boost] Re: [Test library] wide_string test and wputenv

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-24 18:24:34

Gennadiy Rozental writes:
> "Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:42938CE3.6050701_at_redshift-software.com...
>> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>>>I think we've seen multiple times that this at least causes
>>>>Boost developers and release managers distress when it happens
>>>
>>> Does it distress you any less,  when faulures in Boost.<anything else> 
>>> unit tests happends?
>>
>> I think the distress comes from not knowing that they are not required 
>> tests. During release, we assume that *all* tests are important. And most 
>> of us don't know enough about individual libraries to see if failing tests 
>> are important or not.
>
> In fact majority of failures comes even not from actual tests, but from 
> examples. I did not find a "proper" way for examples to show up in 
> regression tests screen, so I faked them as tests (compile only rule). I 
> think some kind of "test level" notion could be a good idea. We may have 
> critical, feature-critical, informational kind of tests.

You can employ test case categorization
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/124071/) to at
least visually group the tests into categories along the above lines.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering