Towards Zero Test Suite Failures

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Jan 13, 2008 6:53 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> 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 )
>
> IMHO one of the hallmarks of 1.0 should be reliably
> getting zero test suite failures.
> That would make regressions stand out like sore thumbs
> instead of requiring developers to diff results
> before and after their changes, and might
> result in fewer regressions getting committed.
>
> How 'bout folks spend some time tracking
> the current six odd failures down and cleaning them up?
> - Dan
>
> --
> Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
>
>
>

Sounds like a worthy goal IMO.  It seems theres much more than 5 or 6
things which need work though:
http://test.winehq.org/data/200801121000/   Perhaps we should try and
have the nightly suite also pass all tests -- or is this too much of a
frivolous goal?

-- 
Zachary Goldberg
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team
School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania