Re: mark expensive tests

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> If we want to recommend to run the smoke tests at least before
>> committing, then 2 minutes might be long enough to let people refuse
>> that. That's why John has proposed a 30 seconds upper limit for the smoke
>> tests.
>
> I'm afraid that arbitrarily selecting 25% of the current test suite
> will leave too of the functionality much untested.  Emacs is a
> hodge-podge of mostly unrelated functionalities, so I think it won't
> be easy to come up with a meaningful sanity test.
>
> But maybe I'm just missing something.  Can you tell how will you
> select the 30-sec worth of tests?

Not yet. As said, I would start to puzzle out the expensive
tests. Reducing make check from 10+ minutes to 2 minutes seems to be a
good start. Whether we need to define smoke tests I don't know.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.