Re: Bugzilla category for test case bugs?

Pierre wrote:

On 6/5/07, Zoe Slattery <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi all Would it be possible to have a Bugzilla category for test case bugs? The only alternative seems to be to raise a bug against the implementation - which doesn't seem quite right.

Why not simply put them in the related category? For example GD for a problem in a GD test. With an extra category, I will simply not see any bugs related to my extension tests, even when I'm fetching the 'GD' category bugs. That's reasonable. The reason that I asked was that all I'm doing is writing functional tests - so, for example - if I make a mistake in a functional test for "Filesystem" I don't necessarily see why the developer working on Filesystem should have to look at it, or spend their time fixing it. By the way, this came up because a colleague found a mistake in a test and couldn't work out the right way to raise a defect.

I also noticed that there are separate categories for Documentation defects - so it seemed to me to be consistent to have one for tests. I'm happy to ask people to with raise them against the implementation - I just didn't want to cause unecessary work for the core developers. Of course I'm *hoping* that there won't be enough defects in the test cases to cause anyone major headaches :-)

What would rock is a bug "type" field. A bug can be GD and Testing related, or Ming and Documentation. --Pierre