Massive Konqueror Regression

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Aug 17 19:43:43 CEST 2005


On Tuesday 16 August 2005 21:22, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Frank Osterfeld wrote:
> > On Monday 15 August 2005 14:31, David van Hoose wrote:
> >>Hi Stephan,
> >>
> >>I haven't yet, but I do see that Konqueror has at least one regression,
> >>so I know your regression tests are inadequate.
> >
> > I am sure you can point me to a testing method with 100% coverage.
>
> They do exist -- at least they are supposed to exist.
>
> The validation suite for a compiler is supposed to test everything.
>

Such as suite can not  not exist for any turing-complete language. Neither can 
one exist for HTML or javascript. It is logically impossible.

You can test however isolated behaviour; which we already do. A small subset 
of the khtml regression suite is the entire Mozilla regression suite which 
tests all elements and properties of HTML 4.01 and DOM 1 and 2. 

`Allan


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