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Re: Idea to gain the time of wider testing.

From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
To: "J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:28:47 +1100
Subject: Re: Idea to gain the time of wider testing.
References: <998d0e4a0802221156m54f0a39ct43a40c2e1970cc51@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 20:56 +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:

> I've ideas when there are repetitive processes as e.g. the testing processes.
> 
> Q1. Why to lose time testing the same reiterated files that always had worked
>     for many months or years?

To use an old expression, "past performance is no guarantee of future
performance".  Just because a test has passed hundreds of times before
does not mean that a small change will not introduce a regression.  In
my experience, sometimes regressions  occur where I least expect them.

Ben

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