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Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test
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Rob Browning |
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Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test |
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Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:59:22 -0700 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Beside the test counts (which I find useful), running all the
> scripts in a single process increases the chance of catching nasty
> bugs, as you noticed. ;-) So I think it makes sense to keep it as
> is.
Hmm. While I can see the point that running all of the test in a
single process does exercise Guile as a whole more heavily, I suppose
I was looking at this more from the perspective of testing accuracy.
Running all of the tests in a single process increases the chance that
some unrelated action by a previous test might inadvertently break (or
just improperly skew) the current test, i.e. it makes it harder to
isolate your variables. Such a problem seems like the kind of thing
that might take a long time to track down, without providing any
useful diagnostics.
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Rob Browning
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