Re: A QA hat..

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Liz wrote: > With a QA hat, has anyone come up with a script which tests EVERY function > within PHP? group by group? so that people who compile in appropriate groups > can check its passed? Just out of interest? What to the developers use to > decide they feel it works? > > It would make it 10000% easier if all the a tester needed to do for a quick > test was run a script or run a script per compiled in section, and work off > that.. > > Is this feasable? Nothing will ever spot the well, you have to define 1004 > variables, after doing 12 ftp's with dbase compiled in and then printing it > wont notice the 33rd comment or something, but, it would mean an exceptionally > good way to be sure simple things work and given the number of people who > could then run it, they could easily say I compiled with these options and > these lines in the script failed....... > > Or should I go hang my head in shame? > Well, we do have quite a nice testing suite in place, where people should feel free to contribute tests, etc. :))) Just try "make test" to see it in action... -Sterling