Re: 4.0.2 Release date

Hello Stig, On 06-Aug-00 06:19:07, you wrote: >> Now, a greater challenge: many existing bugs lead PHP to crash. How do >> you (plan to) handle crashes in your test suite? Since you use PHP scripts >> to test features I supposed you have to use something external, like shell >> scripts or PHP scripts running independently of the actual test scripts, to >> detect failures that lead to crashes. >The idea is very simple: a PHP/shell script runs the PHP interpreter >(with a dedicated php.ini file and/or customization directives on the >command line) once for each test. The stdout of the test is then >compared to the expected output, if they differ, the test fails. If it >gets harder than this, I fear people won't bother writing tests. I know how regression tests work, but if you run from shell, it will be hard to run them on non-unix platforms. OTOH hand, if you run from a single PHP script it terminates when a bug leads PHP to crash. You have to rely on a PHP only solution to a master PHP script call individual test scripts using only the standalone CGI executable. Besides that there may exist bugs that only show when PHP is run as a server module, so the scripts may have to runnable that way. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --