David Abrahams wrote:
"troy d. straszheim" <troy@resophonic.com> writes:
Rene Rivera wrote:
One thing I should make clear about my suggestion to reduce the combinations... Is that it doesn't mean reducing the number of types that get serialized, rather increasing those and having more complex and comprehensive test.
I need to think about it more... for now, I carpet bomb. But it clearly would get out of control as types, archives, platforms and versions proliferate. No question.
It sounds like, from what Rene has said, it already is out of control.
I did another incremental test run today which spent most of the time retesting serialization, probably some minor change. But it ran from 10:30am to 8:00pm, 11.5 hours. So yes, I consider that out of control.
Anything that makes it very difficult and/or expensive for a tester to complete a testing run needs to be fixed rather urgently. I hope you realize that, and I think you probably do, but from your posting it wasn't clear.
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