On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:44:08AM -0700, Darren New wrote:
I guess you could let the check-in provisionally pass if when you check it in you say which tests you think you affected, and those tests do what they're supposed to, then at lunch or in the evening you run the whole suite of tests again.
It's smarter than this. It guess on tests based on other tests that were changed at the same time as the files you modified in the change. You specify basically a number of tests and it will run that many, randomly, biasing toward the ones likely to be affected, but also catching others as well. Combining it with running the full test suite periodically works reasonably well. There's just a chance that a change will introduce a problem that won't get caught for a while. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
