OpenEuphoria

Re: Regression Testing

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at gmail.com> Jul 20, 2005
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Jason Gade wrote:
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> posted by: Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com>
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> (This message will probably show up once Topica's servers are back up, but I'm
> posting it directly to the forum for now.)
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> I follow the D programming lists even though I don't contribute or really
> write anything in D.  But the question occurs to me about regression testing.
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> Before reading the D list I never really knew what regression testing was. 
> I'm sure that Walter has his own set of tests, but every time something doesn't
> meet the published spec, Thomas Kuehne adds it to his project called DStress and
> tracks it.
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> Is there anything formal like this done for Euphoria or Win32lib?  How about
> other projects?  What kind of regression testing is done for Euphoria or Euphoria
> projects?  How are results tracked?
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> It's an important question, especially for library projects such as the
> proposed standard library.
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> I'm not really familiar with software testing and that is why I am curious.
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> Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
> 
> j.

Rob and Derek, thanks for the replies.  I didn't think of sanity.ex as a 
regression test but looking at the (somewhat complicated) code makes it 
pretty clear that that is what it is.

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Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
j.