From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, 5754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5754: Bytecomp Arithmetic test failed
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:19:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51003241819u8be4b76l6c975cc3e5b9c32c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviq8l2ody.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>>> Not when building Emacs, but there should be a make target like
>>>>> `make test'. And when choosing a unit test framework to add to Emacs,
>>>>> the main criteria should be the ability to run tests in batch mode.
>>>> Yes, there should such a target. But why don't you think it would be
>>>> run at the end of the build process?
>>> No, thanks. It would be a nuisance for developers.
>> In what way?
>> The idea behind unit tests is to catch errors as soon as possible
>> after each change. Would not running the unit tests directly after
>> building help with that? Some problems are platform specific and will
>> perhaps show up during unit tests.
>
> It could only work if running the test takes a negligible amount of
> time, and it generates almost no output if all goes well.
Or if fail is noticeable.
> The second point is probably easy, but the first is unlikely to stay
> true for long.
Why not try it and remove it if it becomes a burden?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 7:47 bug#5754: Bytecomp Arithmetic test failed Juri Linkov
2010-03-23 8:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-23 9:03 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-23 13:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-24 22:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-24 22:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-25 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 1:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-03-25 7:19 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 16:08 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 22:40 ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-03 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 23:31 ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-04 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-04 8:05 ` Andreas Schwab
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