From kde-core-devel  Sat Oct 06 12:10:24 2007
From: David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:10:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdelibs (at least) : test building by default
Message-Id: <200710061310.24733.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
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On Saturday 06 October 2007 12:54:01 André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Saturday 06 October 2007, David Jarvie wrote:
> > And some tests (e.g. in kdepimlibs/kcal) take a very long time to run
> > - enough for a couple of cups of coffee. Although there is still the
> > option of killing tests if they are taking too long.
>
> Unit tests should be fast otherwise they aren't run (often enough).

The ones I refer to take a long time because they are reasonably thorough, and 
the functions called are quite calculation intensive. The choice is these 
tests, or writing tests which don't really test the code properly. I'd much 
rather have a thorough test even if it takes a long time, since it really 
does pick up errors. But there's no way many people would want to run it 
every time they build.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm