Re: [PHP-DEV] We Want Quality From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 06/29/00

At 02:09 PM 6/29/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > From my experience regression tests are crap. They barely catch anything.
> > Having testers run RC's on their development sites (real life scripts) is
> > probably the best regression test you can do.
> > For example, Zend.com's code covers most features PHP has to offer, and
> > when testing a version on that (of course an internal development version
> > of Zend.com) you are much more likely to catch bugs than with a regression
> > test.
>
>True, but regression test can be useful (like for that min()/max()
>stuff).

Yeah but most developers don't like nor have time to write regression tests
and using that time to fix bugs is more useful.
Seriously, having x people run an RC on their huge web sites is probably
the best test. We just need to make sure we cover sites that include MySQL,
Postgres, ODBC, Oracle, Linux, Slowlaris, FreeBSD and so on.
I think that would work and it would be much much easier to find
volunteers. And if a volunteer doesn't have time, we send a hit man :)

Andi 

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Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>
http://www.zend.com/

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