Testing the build

Testing the build

[Mohamed Bana]

Hi,

Do the developers run the trunk against a set of test cases? For 
instance, testing the new release against files that compile 
successfully under the current stable release? I ask as I often see 
people complain that the new beta isn't working and so forth.

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Re: Testing the build

[Hans Hagen]

Mohamed Bana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do the developers run the trunk against a set of test cases? For 
> instance, testing the new release against files that compile 
> successfully under the current stable release? I ask as I often see 
> people complain that the new beta isn't working and so forth.

the beta not working concerns mkiv which is a moving target and we do 
have test files for specific issues; however one source of potential 
problems is that taco and my machine run full blown trees as well as 
minimals and we dont't test all permutations (so, if for instance a file 
is renamed a problem might not be seen due to the fact that we still 
have such a file somewhere else in the system); anyhow, that's why 
they're betas and we're lucky that we have testers

Hans

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