From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: call for more ert tests
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:01:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li5unusw.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ehbpq5rz.fsf@stories.gnus.org
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:44:48 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> And I think that people writing other highly interactive and non-vital
LMI> stuff has started to find this out in general the last few years. On
LMI> Hacker News there's constantly people popping up who've seen the light
LMI> -- having too many automatic tests means ossifying the software.
In effect writing tests is like buying insurance. Not everyone wants
it, not everyone needs it. Flood insurance for a mountaintop house is
probably a bad investment, but in a flood zone it makes sense.
I think it should be up to the developer to decide if the cost of tests
is justified for their package. For the Emacs core, the maintainers
have to make that decision as part of accepting a contribution.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-28 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 17:31 call for more ert tests Glenn Morris
2013-06-24 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-24 18:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2013-07-01 11:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-07-01 16:14 ` Stefan Merten
2013-07-01 16:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-07-01 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 18:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-01 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 20:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-24 18:33 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-06-24 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-24 18:55 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-06-24 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-24 19:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2013-06-24 19:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-06-24 19:59 ` John Wiegley
2013-06-25 1:21 ` Leo Liu
2013-06-25 2:44 ` John Wiegley
2013-06-25 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-25 2:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-25 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-25 11:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-25 12:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-25 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-25 19:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-25 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-25 20:36 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2013-06-25 20:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-28 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-06-28 15:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-28 15:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-26 9:03 ` Julien Danjou
2013-06-26 5:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-24 19:46 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-25 13:33 ` Noah Lavine
2013-06-25 17:18 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-06-25 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-25 20:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-01 11:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-07-01 12:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-01 14:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-24 18:29 ` David Engster
2013-06-24 18:38 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-24 19:04 ` David Engster
2013-06-25 22:15 ` Daniel Hackney
2013-06-26 9:22 ` Stefan Merten
2013-06-26 12:17 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-06-26 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-26 16:03 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-06-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-26 19:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-26 19:10 ` Michael Albinus
2013-06-26 19:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-26 19:56 ` Michael Albinus
2013-06-26 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-26 19:46 ` Teemu Likonen
2013-06-26 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-29 15:11 ` Stefan Merten
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