Towards Zero Test Suite Failures

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Mon Jan 14 09:11:03 CST 2008


[snipsnipsnip]
> >>> On my machine, we've been hovering between
> >>> five and ten test suite failures for some time
> >>> (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9916 )
> >>> ...
> >>> How 'bout folks spend some time tracking
> >>> the current six odd failures down and cleaning them up?
> >>
> >> Sounds like a worthy goal IMO.  It seems theres much more than 5 or 6
> >> things which need work though
> >
> > Not a pretty picture, is it?
> > But I was only referring to the tests that fail on Wine; there,
> > we have control over both the test and the code, so if
> > we can't get those tests passing, we're pretty weak :-)
>
> Are these tests passing (now) on Alexandre's machine? I thought he didn't
> apply patches that break the wine tests? (at least on his box).

A funny observation perhaps, but I doubt that Microsoft has actually employed 
such a stringent QA process when they developed the code whose bugs Wine now 
works around :)

Cheers, Kuba



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