Re: Re: Stop Breaking Our Apps For the Sake of OO
| From: | Sebastian Bergmann | Date: | Thu, 11 May 2006 12:47:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Stop Breaking Our Apps For the Sake of OO | ||
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Pierre wrote:
> I forgot to mention how vicious such changes can be. Most of times the
> related tests are "updated" in the same commit (or right after) to
> follow the new behavior. Making nearly impossible to know about the
> breakages without duplicating core tests in our apps. Also commit
> messages or changelog entries are rarely explicit enough to mention
> them.
Maybe we could set up a testing system that runs the tests from PHP_4_4,
PHP_5_0, PHP_5_1, and HEAD and shows the differences? That way we would
notice that a test that passed with a previous version fails with a
newer one.
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