RE: [PHP-DEV] We Want Quality

> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrei Zmievski [mailto:andrei@ispi.net] > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:37 PM > > To: Stanislav Malyshev > > Cc: waldschrott; PHP Development > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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. Despite the fact that the old PHP 2 system which we carried into PHP 3 didn't test any web-server related stuff, it did do a pretty good job of testing basic language features. We could revive that without too much work and expand it to cover all the new stuff. -Rasmus