Re: mark expensive tests

[Paul Eggert]

John Wiegley wrote:

>   1. Sanity tests just make sure that the environment works, and the whole of
>      them should run in <30 seconds on typical hardware. Some shops call these
>      'smoke tests'...
>   2. Regular tests ..., likely <10 minutes at the most.
>   3. Extensive tests ...
>   4. Selective tests ...

> ...  'make check' should run #2,

Although that all sounds fine, if 'make check' takes 10 minutes then I likely 
won't run it routinely. I'm just not that patient. I suggest an easy-to-remember 
name for #1, 'make smoke' say, which people like me can try to run more often.