Re: [boost] Boost regression testing status

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-01 00:11:15

Gennaro Prota writes:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:19:45 -0500, Aleksey Gurtovoy
> <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>>Surely there is a lot of room for improvement (as illustrated by
>>http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost.Testing),
>>but the above sounds like you think they are in flux, and if so, you
>>should list the particular issues that led you to this conclusion, or
>>otherwise it's FUD. For instance, surely you could check 1.33.1 report
>>pages before making the claim that dynamic_bitset wasn't tested with
>>CW 8.3 (or any other toolset)?
>
> Yes. The "particular issues which led me to this conclusion" are
> listed in the initial post of this thread. 

All of them but one are perfectly ordinary environment/linking issues,
no? OK, may be they are not normal that far in the release cycle, but
that's hardly a "regression test mess".

>    - For some failures no error message is reported, so that it
>      is pretty much impossible for the developer to fix them; e.g.:
>      http://tinyurl.com/zmpwk

We will look into this one.   

> Surely you could read a little above before making the claim that
> anyone spreads FUD, especially when it comes to people who is being
> here for years.

I did.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering