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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 03:38:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        perhaps@yes.no, terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regression tests (was Re: A 3.0-current SNAP building machine has been found!) 
Message-ID:  <199705120138.DAA11210@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Sun, 11 May 1997 16:30:30 -0700
References:  <199705111709.TAA06018@bitbox.follo.net> <476.863393430@time.cdrom.com>

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> 
> > Anyway; being able to do a 'make regress' on the entire FreeBSD
> > source tree and know all new code and a lot of old code got tested
> > would be a _good_ feeling.
> 
> It sure would be.  Pity it's such a hard problem to ensure that
> everything is still obeying all the right flags and still generating
> all the right output. :(

Depends a bit on whether the design is done to make it easy to verify,
but in the general case, I agree.  However, a framework and just a
regression for parts would still be an improvement.

I'll try to come back to it when some other more-paying ideas for
improving stability have been done...

Eivind.




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