[qmtest] Basic suites question

[Mark Mitchell]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:56, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> There are different answers to your question:
> 
> First of all, you may want to provide your own 'Database'
> implementation that knows how to look up tests, and how to
> group them into suites. (In particular, you may have your own
> idea of how to associate files and directories with tests
> and suites, and the Database implementation is the place to
> encode that relationship.)

Correct.

> Your idea of using suites as aliases for groups of tests
> sounds very interesting, but I believe right now the semantics
> are such that tests are associated which exactly one parent
> test suite. Mark, please correct me if I'm wrong.

You're wrong. :-)

A suite is an arbitrary group of suites.  For every database, there are
implicitly created suites corresponding to the directories in the
database, but the database can have additional suites as well.

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