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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Can you run make Experimental and then share the link to your uploaded
test for 1.8.0? Probably you have small rendering anomalies which
cause the tests to fail - we can add the test results to the anomalies
list if this is the case.

Regards

Tim

> 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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