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

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Here it is http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/viewTest.php?buildid=87438

There might be compilation/library/other local issue on your end
because so many of the tests fail with SEGFAULT

> it looks interesting. In the first raster test called 'raster', some
> columns are wider, some others are narrower. In following raster
> tests, the problem may be the same (columns and rows somehow shifted).
>
> There is a lot of other fails but those seems to be false alarms,
> tests pass ok, but then it crashes, probably.
>
> Radim
>
>> 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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