Cascading test failures

[Jeff Zaroyko]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Hans Leidekker <hans at meelstraat.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 15:12 +0200, Paul Vriens wrote:
>
>> In the past we have seen that on slower machines the number of tests
>> just exceeded the timeout. That has been 'corrected' back than by making
>> some tests interactive. I guess because of the multitude of new tests we
>> have ended up in the same situation.
>
> The msi:install test completes in 90 seconds here in a vm, so well
> within the timeout of 300 seconds.
>

I haven't run a full winetest for a few weeks, but I just gave
msi:install a run on my laptop, Vista 32bit SP2, Intel Core 2 Duo @
2.53GHz, 4GB ram.

install: 8535 tests executed (0 marked as todo, 76 failures), 1 skipped.

Took 4 minutes 47 seconds, as another data point.