regression-test

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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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> In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered
> appropriate?  E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running
> the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive.

FWIW, I started adding those regression-test targets to many ports because they are extremely useful: while trying to update to the latest coreutils I found everything apparently built but everything was actually broken. Now I am finding bugs in some ports that I thought were fine.

It's good to use it for (short) things that actually test functionality. Using it for benchmarks is really NOT a good idea: it takes a lot of time and also the results from the build cluster can vary hugely to make them of any value.

Pedro.


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