On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:40:45PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > IMO, Quality Engineering is not just about writing regression tests > to keep out known bugs - it's most important function is developing > and refining new testing tools to find bugs that have escaped > detection with existing testing methods and tools. If test engineers > can find new bugs, software engineers can fix them. That's really > the ultimate goal here - to find bugs and fix them before users are > exposed to them... How about creating a new group, "regression"? Regression tests are not useless, but we might want to reserve them for integration testing, periodic tests, and distro testing of "golden masters" where test run is not of essence. For smoke testing, what we want are general functional tests, and "moderate" stress tests. Regression tests are a distant third priority. So assigning regression tests to distinct group so we can filter them out might be another way of controlling the runtime of a smoke test config. - Ted
