[Bioperl-l] Please do not commit without testing

[Nathan S. Haigh]

Sendu Bala wrote:
> Chris Fields wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 23, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Developers,
>>>
>>> Please do not commit changes without testing the test suite first,
>>> especially to branches!
>>>
>>> Note that:
>>>
>>> perl -I. -w t/test.t
>>>
>>> is NOT a good enough test, especially for test scripts that still use
>>> Test and not Test::More. (The above doesn't capture an incorrect number
>>> of tests in the plan.)
>>>
>>> Always initially do:
>>>
>>> ./Build test --test_files t/test.t --verbose
>>>
>>> Then run the entire test suite:
>>>
>>> ./Build test
>>>       
> [snip]
>   
>> However, the various changes using Module::Build need to be 
>> well-documented both in CVS docs and on the wiki.  Your latter example 
>> ('./Build test --test_files t/test.t --verbose') is nowhere to be found.
>>     
>
> I posted to the list about it on the 17th in thread 'Testing with 
> Build.PL'. Where would you suggest a good place on the wiki would be to 
> mention something like that?
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I'd possibly put it somewhere like:
http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Developer_Information

If there's enough stuff to create a new page? If so, how about a page 
called "testing" or "test suite" or "running tests"??

Just ensure it's given the "Developer resources" Category to make it 
that bit easier to locate.

Nath