[qmtest] Nonrecursive behaviour
Vladimir Prus
ghost at cs.msu.su
Wed Aug 14 12:48:28 UTC 2002
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >> It might be a good idea to add something along these lines, but I'm not
> >> sure quite what.
> >
> > Hmm... maybe just "--nonrecursive" comand line option, with an obvious(?)
> > semantics?
>
> Maybe. But then you can't run some directories recursively and some
> non-recursively on the same command-line.
Yea. But I'd say that case is more rare.
> >> To some extent, this indicates that you're not using subdirectories as
> >> they were intended, I suppose...
> >
> > Can't agree. Originally there were no directories under "time", only
> > tests. Later, some directories were added with many tests. But still I
> > want to run tests in "test" only, just to catch bugs early without
> > waiting for a long time. Those tests can be seen as "minimal" testsuite.
>
> One way to do that is to create a test suite. That's the idea behind
> a testsuite -- a set of tests that you want to run as a group on a
> regular basis.
I feel that if there's directory<->implicit testsuite mapping, then
nonrecursive behaviours is an natural thing. It's a personal opinion of
course and I'd like to hear other's opinions.
(Actually, I'd like to see all such issues in a tracker, but guess QMTrack is
not going to be ready soon?)
- Volodya
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