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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-02 08:09:04


on Mon Apr 02 2007, Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz-AT-chello.at> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Wed Mar 28 2007, Thomas Witt <witt-AT-acm.org> wrote:
>>> To clarify I am talking about results for tests that no longer
>>> exist.
>>
>> Do you think they're still in the table because of incremental
>> testing? Martin tests incrementally but he doesn't have them AFAIK.
>
> It would be nice, if we had kind of "auto-fade-out" for test results,
> that are too old, similar to what was proposed sometimes for entire
> tests uploads.
>
> But of course this would require modification of the result page
> generation scripts. A resource which seemingly is not available
> currently.
>
> I wanted just to drop in my ideas, I am not sure if this really is
> the best that can be done about the these dangling tests.

Sure, it's a great idea, but the quality of visual feedback is just
one small part of the issue. Maybe we can have some testing
architecture design sessions at BoostCon. This seems like a job best
done with a bunch of people around a whiteboard.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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