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

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 12:36:58

At Saturday 2005-03-12 10:19, you wrote:
>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
>If you want to be absolutely sure, pass the -a option to bjam and it
>will treat everything as though it's outdated.

yeah, but regression.py is handling the calls to bjam not me.

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>Dave Abrahams
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