Re: [PHP-DEV] We Want Quality From: Sascha Schumann (sascha <email protected>)
Date: 06/29/00

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> 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.

    As mentioned before, regression tests are there to prevent a
    bug from reoccuring. You cannot know in advance what bugs you
    will create.

    I'm running automatic builds on a couple of platforms with
    various targets (Apache, APXS, CGI and if possible, CGI-ZTS).

> 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 :)

    Well, just add redundancy. Let multiple people take care of
    one target, for example.

    - Sascha 

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