Re: We Want Quality

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > You probably don't know how *boring* is to re-check all this stuff after > each small change (that's usually "small" changes which break the thing). > However, automated checklist and automated tools to run it (something like > Perl's make test) would be very helpful here. If someone does write them. > And then again - it'd never catch bugs like "if I define variable there, > and add something to it here, and than run that function - session stops > to work with mm handler"... No sane mind can invent such things - they > just pop-up from the global code pool. Yes, we definitely need to have a regression test suite. Perhaps, a few volunteers would be up to that. -Andrei 'Any given program, when running correctly, is obsolete.' - First Law of Computer Programming