Hi,
So we just should choice what is better: to break sometimes tests run or to forget enable test(s) on some platforms.
Yesterday, when I was removing one of the beans tests from exclude lists, I feel a bit uncomfortable while updating exclude.linux.x86_64.xxx since I have no (easy) access to such systems and had no plans to run tests on it. IMHO (in the perfect world) the fact that I remove or add something from / to exclude.linux.x86_64 means I've at least ran tests for this platform and obtained some result. So let's have a common list, it's easier to deal with it psychologically. :-) As for above question: +1 for being optimists, i.e. to remove the test from common list if it passes on all platforms available to tester. Thanks, 24.11.06, Vladimir Ivanov<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> написал(а):
On 11/24/06, Ivanov, Alexey A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vladimir, all, > > These are good questions. On the other hand, there are reasons to consider > most of the tests to be not platform dependent. > > If you fixed an issue, and it's in "all" exclude list, you would remove it > from there and check on the platforms available to you. If something goes > wrong on other platforms, those will report the problem back. Then you > either fix the problem again, or add this test to the platform-specific > exclude list. > > If you find some test fails, it's better to alert the community about the > issue and file a JIRA issue. After the evaluation of the problem, a decision > will be worked out how to exclude it: for all platforms or only for one > specific, if the problem can't be easily fixed. > > Does it make sense? So we just should choice what is better: to break sometimes tests run or to forget enable test(s) on some platforms. My idea that is normal situation for ours exclude files is empty list. In this case does not matter how many of them we have. But when we enable new platform we use platform specific excludes. We may have any procedure to exclude/enable tests but it will nice if it will one procedure for all :) > I am against duplication of the lists because it may easily hide a problem > on other platform because someone forgot to update all 8 lists, for example. I don't like duplication too but I think it is 'initial' state only. In the nearest feature (I hope) we enable tests at least for win/lnx on x86 :) Thanks, Vladimir
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