-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Florent Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > instead of using alphabetical order, would it make sense to order the > unit tests by "difficulty", or "fundamentalness". This way, when many > tests fail, the first one to fail would be the one to look at > first. This would be done by appending a number to the name of the test, > from 00-trivial-test.sh to 99-corner-case.sh. What do you think? > > Florent
I think that one probably could not order all tests by difficulty/fundamentalness, any attempt to do so would probably result in some arbitrary rankings, wouldn't interact well with adding new tests (suppose one adds a 60th difficulty test, does one renumber 60-100 +1?), and might result in unfortunate dependencies between tests (switching to random order broke some tests, IIRC). - -- gwern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAklRFJAACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oJ0PQCfbcM+1UnVb0QJ/G/0Jf1unmIa Vo0AnioVWWPUHLZUHiBT4UhOtNc6eUtX =6dcj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
