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Re: Suggestion for a new GNATS policy
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- Cc: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>, Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:56:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new GNATS policy
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305120930050.15700-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu> <1052757240.729.53.camel@steven>
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:33:59PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> What I'd really like to see is a "minimized test case" field (which may
> be a pointer to an attachment) and an SQL query to extract them all.
>
> That way, people could put DejaGNU-ified test cases in the bug database,
> rip them all out with the query, and test them on their target. Even if
> only a few people would to that, we would know much sooner if/when a bug
> got fixed unnoticed (ie. PR not in CVS commit msg.), and to which target
> the bug applies.
>
> The idea is that we really would like to be able to batch-test PR
> reports. Janis and Wolfgang have talked about a PR testsuite, and this
> idea was mentioned again earlier in this thread, but we really don't
> want to litter the test suite that much. With an easy way to extract
> all minimized test cases, you'd effectively have the same thing without
> even touching the testsuite.
Interesting idea, particularly if the query could be automated so the
tests could be run as part of nightly builds and testing.
Janis