Re: Unit tests
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 19:11, Guy Hulbert <gwhulbert@eol.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-26-12 at 17:13 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> Quoting "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik@gmail.com>:
>> If unit tests were in the package, reportbug could automatically
>> run them on a bug report. Does someone do this already, maybe?
>
> Can reportbug be modified to download a source package and run tests ?
Short answer: no.
Detailed answer: no, because:
- it bloats reportbug to do something that's not meant to (it _reports bugs_)
- how to recognize packages that have unit tests and those that haven't?
- where are those unit tests and how to execute them? more generally:
there is no standard way to run unit tests.
- what if unit tests need additional dependencies (not present on the
user system) to be executed?
Regards,
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