Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.2 Release date From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos <email protected>)
Date: 08/06/00

Hello Stig,

On 06-Aug-00 06:19:07, you wrote:

>> Now, a greater challenge: many existing bugs lead PHP to crash. How do
>> you (plan to) handle crashes in your test suite? Since you use PHP scripts
>> to test features I supposed you have to use something external, like shell
>> scripts or PHP scripts running independently of the actual test scripts, to
>> detect failures that lead to crashes.

>The idea is very simple: a PHP/shell script runs the PHP interpreter
>(with a dedicated php.ini file and/or customization directives on the
>command line) once for each test. The stdout of the test is then
>compared to the expected output, if they differ, the test fails. If it
>gets harder than this, I fear people won't bother writing tests.

I know how regression tests work, but if you run from shell, it will be
hard to run them on non-unix platforms. OTOH hand, if you run from a
single PHP script it terminates when a bug leads PHP to crash. You have to
rely on a PHP only solution to a master PHP script call individual test
scripts using only the standalone CGI executable. Besides that there may
exist bugs that only show when PHP is run as a server module, so the scripts
may have to runnable that way.

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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