"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote in message news:000601c53704$45a0f360$6501a8c0@pdimov2...
Doug Gregor wrote:
On Mar 11, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Misha Bergal wrote:
* When developer checks something in - she should see the results of that checkin ASAP. Something like telling the testing system, test me my library on all toolsets and return be the results, quick!
This takes more hardware than we currently have access to, so it's not very high priority to me.
It is high priority to me, provided that it also works for male developers, of course. I've been trying to switch to a test-first development mode, but awaiting the results of the previous round of testing prevents me from working as quickly as I'd have liked.
"test-first" really does help. I normally develop under Windows, but have installed Linux on an old machine, and also bought a cute little Mac Mini's to test on Mac OS X. Being able to cycle tests quickly on all three platforms really does speed multi-platform development. If we put Boost's collective mind to it, perhaps we can come up with a way to cycle tests much more quickly. I suspect we can find the machine resources, particularly if we can make the testing process robust enough that the test framework can be started, and then forgotten for months at a time. --Beman