[PD] regression testing WAS Re: [psql] object hand-holding

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> 
>> in practice i found it often simpler to write tests that only output a 
>> result when they know that they have passed: you need to create far 
>> less logic, which might minimize the chance to write buggy tests 
>> (which i found is inevitable) likewise, it is often simple to have a 
>> shortcut to tell the framework that the test is known to have failed 
>> (most of these shortcuts could be avoided by splitting the test into 
>> several sub-tests; in practice i found that i prefer to write less 
>> tests) apart from that, a mechanism to quit a test from outside after 
>> some timeout might be a good idea.
> 
> But this is not really what we were talking about. We were thinking 
> about the WAIT state. I sort of assumed that there were both PASS and 
> FAIL results, and this is why I said tri-state, but we were talking 
> about how to represent WAIT in Pd.


yes, this is what i was talking about (and was a bit unclear):
a test can only have 2 results (PASS and FAIL), but it can return more 
states (WAIT,...) in order to communicate to the framework that it needs 
special handling (e.g. more time)

i shouldn't have confused these 2 things.


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