Re: We Want Quality

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > 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. True. And that's not too shocking that we already discussed that ages ago, and decided that each and every solved bug report that involved a fix would semi-automatically become a test case. We've had this decision, we even have the resolutions online on the Web. Somebody that will actually execute them is what's missing. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/