Re: [Boost-testing] [accumulators] spurious failures?

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-08 17:35:06

John Pavel wrote:
>> Ah-ha! Yes, iterator debugging makes some of the accumulator tests run
>> virtually forever. I'll fix this in the jamfile. Thanks. We'll see if
>> that makes the spurious failures go away.
> 
> Well I managed to run all the tests in stand-alone mode and they worked OK,
> but some did seem to run over the 5m limit that I think is the default.  The
> regression testing system should log a timeout if the test overruns, rather
> than leaving us to guess.

It should already be including a message in the test output indicating 
that the timeout was reached.

> Similarly it should recognise UAC and log that.

How does one recognize UAC? And I mean in the programmatic sense. What 
code can we write to do the recognition?

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