[Bioperl-l] Bioperl tests

[Jason Stajich]

It is all a function of how much time core developers have and how many 
other people are helping out by running tests, fixing bugs, and 
reporting the problems.

I can only speak for myself, but I have much less time for Bioperl than 
I did a year ago.  I don't run the whole test suite very frequently 
except for the modules that I am changing before doing CVS commits and 
when helping out in a release.  But I am just one developer so I don't 
know what other people are doing.

I have generally ignored BioFetch failing because things have worked 
off and on wrt network connectivity and the local DB tests are tied 
together with the network based ones unfortunately.  I don't think I 
paid attention to those failing tests very much because I've lost track 
of how it is even supposed to work now.

Your ideas about tinder-box, etc are well received, it is something 
that we have talked about off and on for many years but it boils down 
the open-source principal -- s/he who does it first can claim the glory 
of, well, being the first person who did it. =)  Chris can get you 
setup with an account on the appropriate box if you want to do it on 
OBF systems.  Would be great for someone to do it - even if it just 
mean reporting the results of make test in an email to the guts list.  
Seems to work for the biojava crowd.

-jason
On Sep 15, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Peter van Heusden wrote:

> Does anyone run the Bioperl test suite regularly to see what tests 
> fail? I've just fixed a bug in WebDBSeqI.pm which looks to me like it 
> could never have worked. The reason I found the bug is that it 
> triggered a test failed in the tests for Bio::DB::BioFetch, which led 
> to the original question - are these tests only run around 'release' 
> time?
>
> Peter
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