From: Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>,
emacs-devel Mailinglist <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: testing framework and package.el
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:00:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB58331.9020609@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739sb71gh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 13/10/10 4:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Christian Ohler writes:
>
> > As long as we don't touch a given test, we know that it's
> > compatible. If we have to modify it to keep it passing, we know
> > that there was an incompatible change.
>
> You are forgetting new tests for old features.
I was referring to them as "tests written after the fact", sorry for not
being clearer.
> These *must* be run
> against old versions to ensure that the current version of the feature
> is still compatible with the old one.
Yes; but this only needs to be done once per test. The old version is
not going to change. This is assuming that tests get merged into all
branches where changes are made, including bugfix branches. I assume
this is the part that you want to avoid.
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 15:18 testing framework and package.el Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 23:42 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 23:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-01 13:01 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-02 3:53 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-03 10:51 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-03 20:52 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 15:36 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 16:48 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-05 1:17 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05 1:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05 1:50 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-05 3:31 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05 4:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-05 16:43 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-11 9:26 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 3:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 9:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-12 13:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 16:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-12 17:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 17:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13 0:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-13 9:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-13 14:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17 6:37 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-17 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-18 6:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 14:36 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00 ` Christian Ohler [this message]
2010-10-13 14:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17 6:37 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 14:19 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 18:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13 10:00 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 17:22 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05 0:01 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 13:02 ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-10-05 3:29 ` Christian Ohler
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