Re: 4.0.2 Release date

Zak Greant wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have asked the QA team to get ready for the upcoming release. Everyone > who has so far committed to testing the release candidate is listed at > http://qa.php.net/release.4.0.2.php > > If the developers have any special requests, they should make them now. :) > > Also, if anyone else would like to list themselves so that we have a better > idea of what platforms are available for testing, that would be great. > > I am going to be developing rough test scripts that I will redistribute as > they are ready. The scripts will be quite simple and will follow the php > manual's structure. Zak, PHP has been in need of a fully automated regression testing system again for a while. We used to have one, but most people find tests almost as boring to write as documentation, so it was dissolved by the time we released 3.0. I've started experimenting with a framework for this in the pear subdir (see pear/run-tests.in). It's modular by defining a subdir in every dir called "tests" where test scripts (written in PHP) and their expected output are stored in files called "testname.t" and "testname.o" (plus maybe a "testname.i" file if the test needs file input). What if the QA team members, whenever using test scripts to verify that a bug is really gone, put their test code into this or a similar structure, so we can "re-use" your efforts automatically? That way we at least get regression tests for all bugs that are fixed. I assume I'm not the only one who finds pleasure in seeing screenfull upon screenfull of "test passed" ;-). - Stig