[Opensim-dev] Unit tests should not be coupled (WAS: Re: [Opensim-commits] r8737 - trunk/OpenSim/Framework/Communications/Tests)

[Sean Dague]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
>> I really think that this is a case of theory vs. practice. Theory says
>> we shouldn't do it this way, but in practice it works better (at least
>> from my experience doing this with 2 prior large scale projects).
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> And in my experience from two prior large scale projects, practise says the opposite.
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> One of the 'killers' in CI involving tests is when the CI builder starts failing intermittently on integration tests just because something on the CI machine is configured in a certain way, or takes a certain time to execute. Having chained integrations tests in this setting will lead to real, practical, grief and can stall the testing for a long time, until the group identifies the failing link. This is most oftenly the point in time where the team re-writes the stateful tests into state-less.

Damn you crazy universe and giving us different experiences and
different working solutions. :)

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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