[Qgis-developer] Unit tests failing - a heartfelt plea

[Etienne Tourigny]

They were most probably not failing before 1.8 was released, see:

http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php?project=QGIS&date=2012-06-13

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Marco Hugentobler
<marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
>> OTOH, the results for final-1_8_0 of qgis_rasterlayertest are much
>> better than latest master.
>
>
> That's because of the raster_resampler merge. Something to look at for me.
> No idea why they fail before (probably it depends on the GDAL you are
> using).

The autobuilds use a variety of gdal version (1-6 -> 1.9.1) so I think
most possibilities are covered - so it's probably a local problem.

>
> For me, there is also
>
> 11/20 Test #11: qgis_geometrytest ....................***Failed    0.44 sec
>
> and the application hangs with qgis_ziplayertest :
>
> Start 17: qgis_ziplayertest
> *** glibc detected ***
> /home/marco/src/Quantum-GIS/build/output/bin/qgis_ziplayertest: corrupted
> double-linked list: 0x000000000266fc20 ***

This is after raster_resampler merge right? Which gdal version and OS
are you using?

Please send me a debug log of that test.

>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
> Am 15.06.2012 17:44, schrieb Radim Blazek:
>
>> I wanted to bisect the first wrong commit after 1.8 but I found that
>> final-1_8_0 also fails in qgis_rasterlayertest and qgis_rendererstest.
>> Is it possible? Release was made with broken tests? Is it my local
>> problem? Are the tests independent of user settings?
>>
>> OTOH, the results for final-1_8_0 of qgis_rasterlayertest are much
>> better than latest master.
>>
>> Radim
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Tim Sutton<lists at linfiniti.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I just want to make a heartfelt plea that any new code pushed to Git
>>> master should not break tests (at minimum on the platform on which you
>>> are working). If you do radical changes, the test suite should be
>>> updated to accommodate them so that the tests still pass for your
>>> platform when you commit. I would like to see the test suite grow to
>>> encompass  as much functionality of QGIS as possible, but it will be
>>> very difficult to maintain them if we commit code that breaks them.
>>> You can always view the state of the last nightly builds here:
>>>
>>> http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php?project=QGIS
>>>
>>> You can test your work before pusing it to master by doing:
>>>
>>> make test
>>> make check
>>>
>>> or (to share your test results)
>>>
>>> make Experimental
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
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