On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:39:45 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> > 
> > >The idea behind making the tests part of the "default" build procedure
> > >in Solaris was to catch/solve/handle multiple issues:
> > >- Someone breaks libc/libnsl/libsocket/etc. and ksh93 goes mad elsewhere
> > >(and we get the blame).
> > 
> > This is where it hurts that we have not made testing open yet.

> Yes, but AFAIK the Solaris test suites and the ksh93/AST test suites are
> designed to do different things - the ksh93 tests were created to find
> bugs which were hit once (to prevent that they ever surface again) while
> the Solaris test suites are more designed to find violations of
> standards... or am I wrong here ?

ksh93+ast tests are both flavors
regex and ksh related tests are especially standards oriented
but many bug fix related tests end up encoding expected/standard behavior
so after time it might be hard to distinguish the flavors

-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --


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