kdelibs (at least) : test building by default

André Wöbbeking Woebbeking at kde.org
Sat Oct 6 11:08:57 BST 2007


On Saturday 06 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 06.10.07 08:49:35, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 October 2007 01:16:33 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > > I think the subject is self-explanatory. Is there any opposed
> > > mind to enable by default test building for kdelibs ? If so,
> > > speak up please.
> >
> > In the KDE as well as all of the software world unit tests should
> > be part of life.  Just like you compile before you commit, you
> > should run the tests to see if you introduced a regression.
>
> That would need however a way of communicating which tests worked and
> failed before my changes, else I have to build 2 versions of the same
> module and compare which I seriously doubt many people would do
> (personally I wouldn't do that either). I'm not sure where to put
> that information though.

In a perfect world all tests work before you're changing anything so you 
only have to run them when you're finished. Of course the world isn't 
perfect so you've to run the tests before starting your work and fix 
all failing tests (or tell other people to do it :-).


Cheers,
André




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