Re: [boost] [testing] Refactoring serialization tests, and possibly others.

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-26 16:20:45

Rene Rivera wrote:
> One likely immediate difference is that I run test with optimizations
> enabled.

That would be significant.  I have run the test suite in the past in release 
mode and had lots of problems I couldn't address.  In particular, borland 
5.51 loops (almost) forever in lots of the tests due to some issue in 
compilation of borland 5.51 with Boost.Test.  I did mention this but I 
believe it was dismissed because borland 5.51 wasn't an a "release" 
compiler.  I think I gave up running release mode tests at this point 
because then I whould have to have a different or more elaborate Jamfile 
setup up and no one seemed to care.  FWIW, no users have complained either 
so I don't know what to make of it.  Perhaps other compilers have quirks 
that only show up in release mode (very likely).

It seems to me that this isn't so much an issue of testing taking too long 
but rather tests failing in release mode in an ungraceful manner.

I'll look into this at least as far as the serialization library is 
concerned.

Robert Ramey