We *really* need a development model change !

[Andreas Mohr]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:40:40AM -0800, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Andriy Palamarchuk <apa3a at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I suggest to use explicit checks and print descriptive
> > messages in case of falure. I agree, this approach is
> > more labour-intensive, especially for tests using IPC.
> > It is also much more maintainable as soon as you coded
> > it. Everything, including differences between
> > different Windows platforms is documented directly in
> > the code! This gives much better control. E.g, it is
> > possible to comment-out part of the test, still
> > getting meaningful results what worked, what did not.
> 
> I definitely agree here, having the code check everything itself is
> much better that having to compare the output. The drawback is that it
> makes tests more complex to write, so I'm not sure if we want to make
> it the rule for all tests.
I think we do want to do this :-)
It doesn't add significant overhead to the test procedure,
and as far as "third-party" (aka "Windows") developers are concerned,
they could just hack away at their specific test, and even if they miss
version checking, then we could easily add this, I guess, as someone *will*
notice and will enhance it properly.

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