> Now, I am all for re-organising the tests if it makes more sense and so on
> (they are surely a mess at the moment).  But I think that complaining about
> others is extremely counter-productive.  I also worry that once again we
> will focus our energies on "re-organising" to the way we individually might
> like things, rather than actually moving things forward (OK - this I admit
> is cynical).

Let's make sure we spend our time understanding what is there and
improving our overall testing strategy.  


> The general thrust of this discussion has been good.  And I think I like the
> way the discussion is going - however I do *not* want to rush into
> anything.  Further there is always a temptation to move the existing tests
> "out of the way" to make room for pure unit tests, and to remove the
> existing tests from the build.
> 
> This would be a *HUGE* mistake.

+100

> However I think the first step should probably be to examine and document
> what tests we have at the moment.  We already have people who are possibly
> existing tests that are already there.  The problem is that such a
> documentation task isn't high up on anybody's list of fun tasks... and I
> doubt that anyone is going to volunteer to do it?  Like I said, I'm a
> hypocrite since I'm not going to commit myself to doing this, even though I
> know it needs to be done.

I'll do that, as this is very important. I hope people will help me
though as this is not a funny task. 

Arnaud 

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