[Scons-dev] SCons COM vs COMSTR tests

[William Blevins]

Fair enough.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> William,
>
> I think I disagree.
> The ability to set one different from the other should work and should be
> tested.
>
> Though, this really comes from the Action Object..
>
> I think ideally we'd be able to easily separate running unit tests from
> the system tests. (Though you can do that by specifying which parent
> directory now).
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:15 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Team,
>>
>> I was looking at some tests and they seems to overlap in such a way that
>> 1 is subsumed by the other.
>>
>> For example, test/Java/RMICOM.py and test/Java/RMICOMSTR.py are identical
>> except that one sets only the RMICOM variable and the other sets both
>> RMICOM and RMICOMSTR (which of course means that one has extra stuff in the
>> stdout). It seems to me that RMICOMSTR subsumes the other, and only 1 test
>> has value.
>>
>> Having a lean test harness is a bonus. Tests take a long time to run
>> (especially if we are running redundant ones).
>>
>> V/R,
>> William
>>
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