The tests, I would say, are gold.

MG


On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> The investigation that revealed problems in outrigger's FastList and some of 
> the corresponding test code started from a single failure of a QA test that 
> usually runs correctly. The failure did not reproduce with the test as 
> currently checked in. To investigate, I had to drastically increase the 
> numbers of entries and threads.
> 
> Should I check in more stressful versions of some or all of the outrigger 
> stress tests?
> 
> Doing so would further slow down QA, by order minutes for each enhanced test. 
> On the other hand, I have clear evidence that the current versions of the 
> tests have low probability of finding concurrency bugs that could be detected 
> by enhanced versions.
> 
> Patricia

Michael McGrady
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Topia Technology, Inc.
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