[SoC] Project proposal: Improving the testing workflow

[Andrew P. Black]

On 20 Mar 2007, at 3:46, Damien Cassou wrote:

> - Linkage: it should be possible to know what tests must be run when a
> method is modified. This should not be annoying for the developer (no
> message box for example). The tests must NOT be run automatically.

Why must the test NOT be run automatically?   Erik Ernst has shown  
dramatic benefits form running the test continuously and  
automatically with novice programmers.   Certainly, it should be  
possible to turn automatic testing (on and) off.  But once you have  
the dependencies figures out, why not provide the option of running  
all the tests that might have changed?

	Andrew

Andrew P. Black
Department of Computer Science
Portland State University
+1 503 725 2411



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