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From: Daniel Kulp <dkulp@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Tests
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:31:19 -0500
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On Mon February 23 2009 7:48:03 pm Benson Margulies wrote:
> Someone asked about speeding up the Hudson builds by parallelizing the
> systests.
>
> Here's my view.
>
> The systests need housecleaning. Some of them could be converted to
> ordinary per-module unit tests. Some of them could be combined. Some
> of them could be deleted. Some of them could be put out to pasture in
> a regression module that we didn't run for every checkin.
>
> This would be a big job for someone with a flair for test suite
> design. The goal would be to transform the systests into a more sleek
> functional test suite.
>
> Anyone feeling that ambitious?

Are you volunteering?   ;-)

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Daniel Kulp
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