Re: [Boost-testing] Disabling Incremental Testing

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-30 02:54:20

David Abrahams wrote:
> 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.

IMHO, fighting against invalid data is better to do early in a tool 
chain. As it is now, we can easily spot who needs to fix something for 
his incremental tests (such a fix can reduce the time for test cycles, 
e.g. if a large number of tests get renamed; we had that case already).

Regards,
m