Re: RFC: JART - Just Another Regression Test
[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel)
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Arent' we in a chicken and egg situation? Until the language and its edge cases are locked down, any JAPH you collect now may be invalidated. Though it would be valid immediately for p5. <chaim> >>>>> "MGS" == Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> writes: MGS> Testing code is often contrived and incomplete. Its often optimistic, MGS> simplistic and doesn't stress the program as much as real world code will. It MGS> would be best to use real world code in our regression tests, but MGS> unfortunately it is difficult to collect code which is itself simple to test. MGS> So it would be wonderful to have a set of real world code which stresses all MGS> the features of Perl, but is also easy to test. Fortunately we do. JAPHs! MGS> Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of freely available small bits of test code MGS> using almost the entire range of Perl and all with the same output! -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. [email protected] +1-718-236-0183