From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-17 23:06:50
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:47153D34.8070105_at_acm.org...
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> news:47151E0B.4090506_at_acm.org...
>>> The Win32 smoke test at 40095 is now available. See
>>> http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/win32-trunk-results.html
>>
>> These tells me nothing.
>
> Here is how you use the smoke tests:
[...]
When this procedure was esteblished? Is it described somewhere on site?
>>> It looks to me like Gennadiy should run the full test suite locally
>>> before committing changes to trunk. That would have certainly detected
>>> last night's snafu before it happened.
>>
>> I already spend hours on testing before I do any commit. Waiting days for
>> the full test to complete will make it impossible for me to make any
>> changes.
>
> > For one compiler, a full VC++ test takes about two hours on a modern
> desktop machine. But an incremental test takes less; as short as 5
> minutes for small changes. The changes you made last night caused my
> machine to take about 50 minutes to cycle through the full set of tests.
My computer is not as powerfull. I would expect at least several hours if
not longer for the full regressiontest run. And than multiply it by at least
6.
> Most developers don't have to go to that extreme, but Boost.Test is
> special because so many of our developers depend on it.
>
>> And it still will leave a lot of room for possible portability
>> failures, since I can't run on all the *unix platforms.
>
> We aren't expecting every platform to be tested. But there is no excuse
> for committing code that breaks a lot of libraries for your personal
> desktop platform. And then no excuse for breaking Win32/VC++ or
> Linux/GCC for more than an hour or so, since we test those for you with
> tests cycling as often as every 20 minutes.
Well. I retested everything again. Gcc with mignw and cygwin, msvc 8.0 7.1,
cw and intel. I'll give it another try and will follow procedure above.
Gennadiy