Towards Zero Test Suite Failures

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Mon Jan 14 10:13:43 CST 2008


On Jan 14, 2008 5:41 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> But if you fix a test failure in Wine that is failing on Windows, then
> you are introducing a bug in Wine.

When fixing those 5 - 10 tests on Wine, one should also
make sure they work on Windows.

> I like the idea of getting the tests passing on Windows XP (SP2?) -
> that will then be the baseline for Wine. This should not cause
> regressions on other versions of Windows.

Yep.  And at some point we should indeed make Windows XP
the default personality in Wine.  Seems like a 1.0 kind of thing.
- Dan



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