release 3.2.1

Søren Hauberg soren at hauberg.org
Sat Jul 11 10:08:23 CDT 2009


lør, 11 07 2009 kl. 17:01 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:05:30PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > > So, I'd say we don't need more testers, but more tests. 
> > 
> > Tests are good, and everybody agrees we need more of those. But I
> > honestly don't think tests can catch everything (that would require an
> > enormous amount of tests). I think we need to run actual programs, and
> > not just unit tests.
> 
> I disagree here. If you add a test for every bug you fix, that gives you
> coverage where it's needed. It's also not necessarily more work, as you
> already know how to trigger a bug.

More tests would be a good thing, and I agree that more effort should be
put into turning bug reports into tests. I just don't think tests alone
will do.

Søren



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