I personally think having some mostly uncomplicated web apps (PocketChange style) and some end-to-end tests using those in the repository would be extremely valuable -- shakes out bugs that nobody expected to occur (such as this one) and serves as a known-working example.
-Ross On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:51 PM, David Pollak wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > imho a high-level test is way more useful for determining if the > > system is basically working, because it is so end-to-end; no, it > > doesn't tell you precisely what to fix like a unit test would, but the > > code-written-to-code-covered ratio is much better for high-level > > system tests than it is for unit tests. > > in other words: are there any 'professional' Test/QA (note those are > different roles!) people on the Lift team/list? > > Just to be clear, the Lift team has a particularly stellar record of keeping > the master development branch stable. In the instant case, the master branch > was unstable for about 10 hours. The last time the master branch was not > stable was more than 60 days ago and the instability in that case also lasted > for < 12 hours. I deploy most of my projects against master... as apparently > does Tim. I have not participated in a project, commercial or open source, > where the main development branch (call it master, head, edge, etc.) has been > as stable as it is in Lift. > > So, I don't think we need additional QA. I think the existing processes work > just fine. > > > sincerely. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
