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Re: [Scsh-hackers] 0.6.4 Beta 1

To: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: [Scsh-hackers] 0.6.4 Beta 1
From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu Mar 13 23:55:25 2003
Cc: Eric Marsden <emarsden@laas.fr>, scsh-hackers <scsh-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net>
List-id: Discussion among the implementors <scsh-hackers.lists.sourceforge.net>
Reply-to: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
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Martin Gasbichler writes:
 > There is no methodology for skipping tests yet. However, your fifo
 > example is there only case I'm aware of where a feature of scsh
 > doesn't work on all systems. 

So I disabled the three tests that create-fifo and everything else in
the test suite passes. Unix domain sockets don't work on Windows either,
but there isn't a test for those right now.

 > I would rather declare this a bug in scsh (which of course we cannot
 > fix) than changing the test suite to skip the test. We could add some
 > output to test-all saying which tests are known to fail due to bug in
 > scsh or add an optional argument to add-test! which indicates whether
 > the test is known to fail.

So having experience with both java testing at work and perl's test
suites, I think it's important for the tests to continue until the end,
reporting pass/fail/skip/total statistics. right now it just dies on the
failure. I didn't expect to just not run the test, but to have it print
a message clearly stating why it was skipped, perhaps with a source
forge defect number included.

in any case, this isn't a 0.6.4 issue. 

-bri


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