Re: [Boost-testing] Re: Whitespace (again)

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 02:06:41

At Friday 2005-03-11 19:09, you wrote:
>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> >
> > If I remember correctly, I put the del *.xml into the script because
> > if I didn't, and the tests blew up spectacularly, the xml wouldn't be
> > deleted, the old one would still be there and nobody would be the
> > wiser until someone goes "how come Rudbek's ruing blah test just
> > fine?" then I panic and discover that indeed, that some test is
> > crashing so hard that the test report is inaccurate.
> > I'd prefer _not_ to have to build every test every time...the run time
> > goes up appreciably.
> > so... what's the solution?
> > to quit deleting .xml files and hope the original problem is fixed?
> > delete all the .exe only?
> > what are .test files?  _should_ I be deleting them??
> > "Enquiring minds want to know"
> >
>
>Victor,
>
>
>Due to many reasons incremental testing is _not_ reliable and there is
>no quick way to fix that. The list of problems we have with
>incremental testing is on http://tinyurl.com/5mk7l. Any help would be
>appreciated. All four of the issues require a more than introductory
>knowledge of BBv1 - for sure certainly more than I have.
>
>It would be nice if somebody would take on some of the issues, because
>the learning curve for me would be the same as for any bjam novice.

so how do I do regression runs that ARE reliable?

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>Misha Bergal
>MetaCommunications Engineering
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