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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Subject: Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:59:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764hf7szp.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wsbcvm5.fsf@laas.fr> (Ludovic Courtès's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:25:38 +0200")

ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Beside the test counts (which I find useful), running all the
> scripts in a single process increases the chance of catching nasty
> bugs, as you noticed.  ;-) So I think it makes sense to keep it as
> is.

Hmm.  While I can see the point that running all of the test in a
single process does exercise Guile as a whole more heavily, I suppose
I was looking at this more from the perspective of testing accuracy.

Running all of the tests in a single process increases the chance that
some unrelated action by a previous test might inadvertently break (or
just improperly skew) the current test, i.e. it makes it harder to
isolate your variables.  Such a problem seems like the kind of thing
that might take a long time to track down, without providing any
useful diagnostics.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-30  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-23  8:37 1.8 make check failing in popen.test Rob Browning
2006-07-23 22:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-07-23 23:12   ` Rob Browning
2006-07-24  7:25     ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-07-30  1:59       ` Rob Browning [this message]
2006-08-15  8:35 ` Rob Browning
2006-08-15 23:13   ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-16  1:18     ` Rob Browning
2006-08-16 23:26       ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-18  3:01         ` Rob Browning
2006-08-21 23:38           ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-22  2:03             ` Rob Browning
2006-08-25  1:16               ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-25  2:39                 ` Rob Browning
2006-08-27 20:06                   ` Rob Browning
2006-08-27 20:22                     ` Rob Browning
2006-08-30  7:50             ` Rob Browning
2006-08-31  0:24               ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-31  6:28                 ` Rob Browning
2006-09-04  2:45                   ` Rob Browning
2006-09-07 20:46                     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-08  2:45                       ` Rob Browning
2006-09-08 23:05                         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-09 12:52                           ` Marius Vollmer
2006-09-09 16:39                             ` Rob Browning
2006-09-10 16:24                               ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11  1:16                                 ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11  6:40                                   ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-11 15:57                                     ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11 17:40                                       ` Neil Jerram

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