War on conformance test suite failures!

[Reece Dunn]

On 04/02/2008, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Great progress was made at Wineconf last year on
> getting our test suite closer to always passing on wine, but
> http://test.winehq.org/data/200801301937/#Wine shows
> that, according to the results collected from people who run
> programs/winetest on Wine, twelve DLLs' tests are currently failing.
> (Let alone the test failures on Windows!)
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9916 also
> talks about the fact that "make test" shows failures.

I have been providing patches to help the situation on all platforms.
I am currently tracking 11 patches that are test related (9 on Windows
- mainly Vista, but the directory-based listview failures should be
fixed on all platforms, 2 on Wine). These haven't been applied yet
because Alexandre went on holiday when I started my campaign against
test suite failures.

A few of these patches I have updated and resent as they needed todo
blocks adding for Wine.

I also kicked off discussions about different aspects of the test
suite failures, but only some of these generated responses.

I am specifically interested in increasing the timeout when running
the Wine Test Shell to handle various timeouts (specifically software
rendered D3D tests and MSI install tests).

- Reece