Re: svn commit: rev 5686 - trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline

sussman@tigris.org wrote:

>Author: sussman
>Date: Mon Apr 21 14:33:14 2003
>New Revision: 5686
>
>Modified:
> trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/diff_tests.py
>Log:
>* diff_tests.py (diff_base_to_repos): vastly expand this test's coverage.
>
>Modified: trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/diff_tests.py
>==============================================================================
>--- trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/diff_tests.py (original)
>+++ trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline/diff_tests.py Mon Apr 21 14:33:14 2003
>@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@
> #----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Regression test for issue #977: make 'svn diff -r BASE:N' compare a
> # repository tree against the wc's text-bases, rather than the wc's
>-# working files.
>+# working files. This is a long test, which checks many variations.
>
>
[etc.]

It's never a good idea to burden a single test case with too much work.
There are two problems here:

    * An early (sub)test might fail, causing all others to be skipped,
      whether or not they would faile themselves.
    * It's much harder to reproduce any errors if they happen after 50
      different commands have been run

I know we do similar things elsewhere, but for new cases, it's generally
a better idea to add whole new tests.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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