Suggestion for a new GNATS policy

[Janis Johnson]

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