Is the test.winehq.org front page too pessimistic?

[James Hawkins]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We should leave the failing files percentage up (note the name change)
>> and add a failing tests percentage next to it.  The failing tests
>> percentage should be total_test_failures / total_tests_run.
>
> That's not a useful number, many files run a lot of tests, of which a
> huge majority always succeeds. Having a single failure among 10,000
> tests means that the test failed, and it's something bad that should be
> taken care of. Showing that as a 99.99% success would be very misleading.
>

Ok you're right.  I wasn't thinking on that scale.  I assumed we had
more than 0.01% failures.

-- 
James Hawkins