Re: [Boost-testing] Disabling Incremental Testing

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-29 22:54:02

on Thu Mar 29 2007, Martin Wille <mw8329-AT-yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> IF all developers tell the testers about removed or renamed tests AND IF 
> the incremental testers then remove the old results then that doesn't 
> happen.
>
> We could discuss adding formal support for that communication to 
> Boost.Build. However, I currently see this problem as behaviour-related 
> or knowledge-related, not as tool-related.

If the reporting tools aren't removing the tests from the tables, they
should be, and it's a tool issue... but I don't think the answer is to
ban incremental testing.

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