Massive Konqueror Regression

David van Hoose david.vanhoose at comcast.net
Wed Aug 17 23:40:30 CEST 2005


Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 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

Hi..

I really don't know why everyone keeps refering to KHTML regression 
tests. I am refering to regressions tests for Konqueror as a whole. The 
regressions I've found in Konqueror most likely are not with KHTML.
What about regression tests for the form data send and such things?

-David


More information about the kde-quality mailing list