Re: We Want Quality
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:07:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: We Want Quality | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> At 01:44 PM 6/29/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jason wrote:
> > > Sign me up.
> >
> >Ok, what would be a good starting point? Perhaps, taking PHP 3's test
> >suite and modifying it?
>
> From my experience regression tests are crap. They barely catch anything.
> Having testers run RC's on their development sites (real life scripts) is
> probably the best regression test you can do.
Regression tests are useful to avoid that a bug returns.
For example, for each bug fixed in the GNU C library, you
have a test case. If that bug returns, it will be catched
and fixed immediately.
- Sascha