On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:32:46 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> > >> 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. I think you two guys misunderstand eachother. Clearly, a test-suite as provided by the software authors should be executed at build-time to check whether the tests pass for the used build dependencies. _But_ that should not be the only time to run tests. Tests should be run also later and regularly. Especially when runtime dependencies keep changing. And, of course, if there are different forms of tests, some may be external to a package and would not be run at build-time. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
