Testcases in Bugzilla

[Daniel Berlin]

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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