Re: A QA hat..

[Sterling Hughes <sterling@designmultimedia.com>] > 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... And read php4/tests/README for details on how to write tests. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway