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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-30 17:20:49
on Fri Mar 30 2007, Martin Wille <mw8329-AT-yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Thu Mar 29 2007, Martin Wille <mw8329-AT-yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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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> IMHO, fighting against invalid data is better to do early in a tool
> chain.
bjam already spits out a list of all the tests at the beginning of a
run; how much earlier can we do it?
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com Don't Miss BoostCon 2007! ==> http://www.boostcon.com