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+From: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
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+Subject: Tests\r
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+I have been thinking a little bit about the current situation with\r
+regards to tests. There are quite a lot of tests in the review queue\r
+that have been there for quite some time without much interest, but I do\r
+think we are rather short of tests. (*)\r
+\r
+I wonder if we could have a sort of staging area for tests where they\r
+could roughly go in without review and would only be run by something\r
+like make stage-test or make all-tests or something. The hope is that\r
+this would encourage more tests.\r
+\r
+The idea would be not that a patch author would have to make sure they\r
+all pass, but if they previously passed and no longer do then the author\r
+would know *something* about the output had changed.\r
+\r
+One example is the emacs elide test by Pieter\r
+id:"1329684990-12504-3-git-send-email-pieter@praet.org" which does still\r
+pass after my substantial change to the way elide is done (and is not\r
+currently covered in the test suite)\r
+\r
+Of course if someone does review one of these staging tests then they\r
+can be moved into the real tests.\r
+\r
+Best wishes\r
+\r
+Mark\r
+\r
+(*) for example the structured output patch accidentally changed the\r
+output of notmuch search --output=threads --format=json <search> but\r
+that was not caught by the tests.\r
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