[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 657

Don Clugston dclugston at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 3 05:53:31 PDT 2010


On 3 September 2010 14:44, Jason House <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 3:19 AM, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Similarly, many bugzilla entries gave a "reduced test case" posted to them
> when Don confirms the bug. Such tests should also make their way into the
> test suite.
>
> That could be helpful, and save a little bit of time. Note, though,
> that usually, by the time I've created a good test case, I've nearly
> fixed the bug.
>
> Honestly, I would be shocked if you claimed it was a big time saver when
> developing the patch. The savings occur over time when they catch
> regressions.

I don't understand. How can it help in catching regressions? The
reduced test cases already get added into the test suite when a bug is
fixed. The only possible benefit is in removing the need for Walter to
add them.


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