On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/23/2014 12:14 PM, drago01 wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/22/2014 07:34 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> >>>> And running tests at build time is a kludge anyway building has >>>> nothing to do with testing. >>> >>> >>> Well, a lot of people will disagree with this claim. >> >> >> Sure a lot of people disagree with a lot of things. >> >>> Testing as part of building (running a package's testsuite) can cover a >>> lot >>> of cases, but is a subset of general testing. >> >> >> I didn't say it cannot cover cases (in fact it does). It is just the >> wrong point where it should be run. > > > I have to disagree with you again. > > The best place to implement a package's self test is within the package, by > the package authors. This is common practice for ages and has been exercised > 1000's of times. 1. I did not state where the test is just where (or better) *when* it should run. 2. Package authors rarely do anything other then ... package ... (99% of the test cases are not "implemented by the package authors") > I regret, but denying this consideration is just evidence of lack of > experience. No you seem to not understand my point. > >> We do it due to lack of better >> infrastructure. > > Sure one can add additonal tests at various levels outside of a package, but > this doesn't invalidate what I wrote above. As stated above you missed the point. Building a package means well building it not test it. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
