Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-20 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Also, it eliminates one of the valuable parts of CPAN testers: testing in the > wild. If you create an artificially clean environment (the clean image), > then install all the latest versions of dependent modules into it and then > run the tests you

Re: Tests running Tests

2005-04-12 Thread Sam Tregar
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Paul Johnson wrote: > I would do it in the same way as if this had nothing to do with tests. > That is, abstract away the common code into a module, which can also > live under t/ That would be a lot of work in this case. I found an easier solution. In tweek-then-foo.t:

Tests running Tests

2005-04-12 Thread Sam Tregar
Hello all. I've got a test I want to write, but I don't know to write it (easily). I've got a test script, call it foo.t which uses Test::More and runs under Test::Harness. Now I want to make a new test script tweek-then-foo.t which tweeks the system and then ensures that foo.t still passes. Ho

Re: Patch testing thoughts

2000-07-26 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Dave Paris wrote: > A patch test should do a minimum of two things: > (a) prove the existance of the problem *before* the patch. If the patch solves a problem (versus adding a feature), this is true. > (b) prove the problem has been fixed *after* the patch - without > break