Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes: > > And this thread is all the more reason why I'm pleased with Paolo's > > attempts to speed up autotest - I've been slacking running the entire > > suite for some of my recent patches, due to the several hours that it > > takes on cygwin; [...] > > FWIW, when writing a patch, I usually do > make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-l | less > > and pick out likely candidates for failures, and run only those: > make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k AS_HELP_STRING -k autotest'
Agreed, and I do this too. The problem here is that until one is familiar with what the testsuite does, it is easy to not know which tests will be relevant to a particular patch. > > That does not take so long. I run the whole suite at most when I'm done > with a patch. That's where I've been falling short lately. I'll do better :) -- Eric Blake
