[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/test test_compiler.py, 1.5, 1.6 test_decimal.py, 1.13, 1.14 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 16:43:25 CEST 2004

<rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: Modified Files: testcompiler.py testdecimal.py Log Message: Change the strategy for coping with time intensive tests from "all or none" to "all or some".

This provides much greater test coverage without eating much time. It also makes it more likely that routine regression testing will unearth bugs.

[Jeremy Hylton]

If the time is really a problem, I'd rather select a certain set of files to test all the times. I'm interested in making sure the compiler is run against the widest possible range of language constructs, which plain old random testing isn't likely to do.

I'd prefer, even, an option to enable random sampling for these tests. When I'm testing the compiler package, I really want to run the entire test, not a small part of it.

If you enable the compiler resource, the entire test is still run. Nothing changed there. What changed is what happens if you don't enable that resource: before, test_compiler was skipped entirely; after, test_compiler tries a small, random subset of files.

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