[Winetest RFI] What do you want out of the test suite?

[Paul Vriens]

Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Am Monday 13 August 2007 13:28 schrieb Paul Vriens:
>> Stefan Leichter wrote:
>>> Am Friday 10 August 2007 12:15 schrieb Paul Vriens:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just want to get people's opinion(s) about the
>>>> needs/requirements/whishes for both the conformance tests themselves
>>>> (including winetest) as well as the webpages.
>>>>
>>>> I'll collect the information and will put it on the wiki.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>> What about marking the "todo_wine" on the web page somehow?
>>>
>>> Bye Stefan
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> todo_wine will only be present on a Wine testrun. Results for each test are
>> available (including todo) when you hover over the single results.
>>
>> We can of course use a general 'todo' visualization but who do you like to
>> see that?
>>
>> Or was you're idea to show todo_wine's in Windows results !?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
> Some days ago i had an issue with an installer. I remembered that i had this 
> long time ago and that i wrote a test to document the difference and a patch 
> to fix the issue. Only the test was accepted not the patch.
> 
> Having the todo_wine on the test result page might have saved me some time 
> digging through the ChangeLog files.

So just the fact there is a todo_wine (or actually for every platform) should be 
enough? A bit like the 'skip' border?

> 
> Also it someone is locking for something todo, he can look to the test results 
> and see the known issues. I don't thing all issues are all documented in 
> bugzilla.
> 
> Bye Stefan
> 

I'll have a look if it's visually good to look at. We already have a lot of 
coloring so maybe we should start looking at some other means of visualization.

Cheers,

Paul.