Re: 5220-regtest - policy?

[Thomas Morley]

2017-10-30 11:38 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Working on the regtest for 5220 I come up with attached.
>>
>> Though, what's our policy for regtests with respect to the tested features?
>>
>> With the attached we could simply delete
>>   tie-semi-single.ly
>>   semi-tie-manual-direction.ly
>>   parenthesize-laissezvibrer.ly
>>   repeat-tie-parenthesize.ly
>>   laissez-vibrer-chords.ly
>> because all the above test-cases are joined.
>>
>> Or do we go for testing every feature with single regtests?
>
> We don't delete test cases since that would not allow us to compare
> results to old test case archives.
>
> It's better to add new test cases.  Putting too many tests into one test
> case also makes it hard for the regtesters to figure out significant
> differences.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Done now:

https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5225/
https://codereview.appspot.com/336890043/

Thanks,
  Harm