[Newcompiler] Re: [v3dot10] Re: testing packages

[Marcus Denker]

On 09.06.2007, at 12:57, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Hi Marcus,
>
> in a bit less encrypted form, what is it that I shall ask Ralph to  
> put into v3dot10. I only recall some decompiler patch but suppose  
> you meant something else, no?
>

The discussion is at

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=4867

709 non closed bugs reports...  this was <300 at the end of 3.9
Isn't this number supposed to go down, not up?

	Marcus


>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:07:54 +0200, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09.06.2007, at 11:38, Mathieu Suen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> There is the test of #ifNil:ifNotNil: but it is comment because it
>>> can't be load by the old compiler.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe the compiler change for the old compiler should be in 3.10? I
>> am amazed that it is not, actually.
>>
>> 	Marcus
>>
>>> 	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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