[Wine] What does "fixing tests failures" mean for users?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 17:02:51 CST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Daemon <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> Tests prove the correctness of code.   Generally, when working out a bug or implementation you write a test that passes on Windows and then work on Wine until the test passes there and cause no additional failures.  Higher test coverage prevents regressions and serves as documentation.
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>  How would you go about *NOT* building the /Tests directories & makefiles from source? It practically doubles the compile time for no added benefit for me.
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See the RegressionTesting wiki page. I've put a patch up that disables
building the tests.

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-Austin



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