[Newcompiler] [v3dot10] Re: testing packages

[Mathieu Suen]

Hi

There is the test of #ifNil:ifNotNil: but it is comment because it  
can't be load by the old compiler.

	Mth



On Jun 9, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Marcus, Math,
>
> I'd like to suggest adding NewCompiler to the list of packages  
> tested against v3dot10. Are there any tests in NewCompiler which  
> are intentionally not green resp. can be made green?
>
> Cheers
> Klaus
>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:27:02 +0200, Ralph Johnson wrote:
>
>> As I've said earlier, I want a system that lets us test packages so
>> that we can make sure that when we make a change to the base  
>> image, we
>> don't break anything.  I've built a system for running those kinds of
>> tests and you can see its results at
>> http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/testResults/3.10alpha.7105.html
>>
>> There are three issues that I'd like to raise.
>>
>> First, there are lots of failing tests in the base image.  I think
>> most of these have to do with the Multiligual bugs that we fixed.  If
>> you start with the alpha.7105 image at
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10alpha/  and file in Diego's fixes to
>> Multilingual at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6520 then you
>> should be able to open the test runner, run all the tests, and get  
>> the
>> same results that I got.  Without Diego's fixes, running all tests
>> crashes the system.  Fixes are welcome!
>>
>> Second, the more packages, the better.  Please suggest packages in PU
>> that I should use as test cases.  Packages without any tests aren't
>> that useful.  It is Ok for packages to have failing tests, but the
>> packages shouldn't crash or ask for input. See
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5987     Note that GamesTests is a
>> package that is just tests, but it depends on a package of games so
>> when you load it, you load the games that it tests.  This is a good
>> way to provide tests when you don't want to always include the tests
>> with the application.
>>
>> Third, I am not committed to this particular testing system.  It is
>> just something I threw together, and requires a bit of handholding to
>> keep going.  It probably won't run on anybody else's computer without
>> some tweaking.  If somebody else wants to write a better one, I would
>> be happy.  Otherwise I will eventually turn it into something more
>> stable.  Note that what I want is a way to take a proposed image and
>> see if it breaks any package.  The most important report is the  
>> one at
>> http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/testResults/3.10alpha.7105.html
>> For details, you can always build your own image and use TestRunner,
>> so it is not so important that the testing system record the details.
>>
>> -Ralph
>
>


	

	
		
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