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Re: Testcases in Bugzilla
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 17:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Testcases in Bugzilla
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305131545510.23882-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu>
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
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> > we still haven't reached a conclusion about the testcases in Bugzilla.
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> To be quite honest, I think what you suggest won't work. What we put into
> the bug database is just too diverse:
> - we have bug reports where just the text of an error message became
> worse than before
> - we have bug reports where we get the compiler into an endless loop
> - we have reports where compilation takes quadratic instead of linear
> time in the input
> - reports with two or more testcases that should do the same but don't
> - some other really weird stuff happening.
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> I can't imagine a method to _automatically_ extract these testcases and do
> something reasonable. If there is one, it would increase the entry level
> for people working in GNATS.
Err, we can easily extract attachments marked "testcase" from bugzilla in
about 9 lines of perl.
The rest is up to other scripts and whatnot.
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