About lonnnnng tests
Romain Robbes
rrobbes at info.unicaen.fr
Mon Oct 4 14:04:51 UTC 2004
On Oct 3, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Doug Way wrote:
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>> On Sep 24, 2004, at 3:12 PM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
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>>> I'm creating some tests for the decompiler (inspired by the one in
>>> SystemDictionary) and they are realllllly slow.
>>> So I'm thinking to create some kinds of SlowTestCase that could be
>>> turned off/on on demand. But I would like to know if someone already
>>> proposed a solution to that problem.
>>
>> I think this is pretty common with unit tests... we had a similar
>> situation where I used to work. I think we ended up just having a
>> different test suite for the slow tests, and they were run nightly,
>> instead of being run whenever you checked in code. But having a
>> SlowTestCase class might be an okay way to handle it too.
>
> And on the flip side, it might be nice to have a QuickTestCase too,
> that can be run all the time - like, every time you accept a method...
>
Hey, neat idea ... I got to put that on my todo list for BrowseUnit ;-)
Romain
> Avi
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