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Marvin Humphrey  
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 More options Apr 1, 8:15 pm
From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:15:02 -0700
Local: Tues, Apr 1 2008 8:15 pm
Subject: Re: Please Test Test.Simple

On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:28 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

>> Unfortunately it's hard to see that it's failing when you're running
>> the suite via the Harness, because the Harness doesn't notice that  
>> the
>> test died and that not enough tests ran.  Harness still reports "All
>> tests successful" and just indicates a lower number than it should.
>> The false negative arises because of the long-standing, hard to fix
>> bug discussed at <http://xrl.us/birbc>.

> Yes, I thought TestResult was supposed to fix that. But I guess it was
> mainly just a refactoring, eh?

It was a start.  The idea was to beef up the OO discipline level a  
bit, and break a chunk out of the gnarly center.  It's pretty hard to  
follow what's going on in there -- and the original Perl Test::Simple  
is harder still.  It's going to take more refactoring yet to get to  
the point where internal test result tracking makes sense to an  
ordinary human brain.

I think you should release anyway.  async.js fails in IE7 Vista in the  
current release (0.21), so you're not losing anything AFICT.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/


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