improving the quality of the image

Elod Kironsky kironsky at grisoft.cz
Mon Jan 29 10:47:14 UTC 2007


Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/1/29, Elod Kironsky <kironsky at grisoft.cz>:
>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> > 2007/1/26, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>> >>
>> >> On Jan 26, 2007, at 16:03 , Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 2007/1/26, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>:
>> >> >> One of my goals for 3.10 is to improve the quality of the 
>> image.  Our
>> >> >> first release (coming soon!) will have only green tests, and each
>> >> >> following release will have only green tests.
>> >> >
>> >> > How does removing failing tests improve the quality?
>> >>
>> >> Woa, where does that hostility come from? There is another way to
>> >> ensure all tests are green, besides removing the failing ones.
>> >
>> > What hostility? I could not see why this improves the quality because
>> > to me the first step to fix a problem is to admit that you have a
>> > problem. Failing tests are pointer to problems for me. Removing
>> > failing tests because they can not be fixed today or tomorrow looked
>> > to me like an attempt to hide hide a problem. So I asked and now I
>> > know the reason why it was done.
>> >
>> > Philippe
>> >
>> Philippe, where did you read that failing tests will be removed? "First
>> release will have
>> only green tests" means, that all tests remain and will pass, not fail.
>> There will be no
>> test removal at all! I'm, pretty sure you misunderstood something.
>
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=5527
>
> Philippe
>
Sorry Philippe, then I have to agree with you and join to Goran's 
proposition
to classify the test, removing them is not a good solution I think.

Elod



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