[Firebird-test] RE: ISC/TCS

[Leyne, S. <sl...@at...>]

Ann,

I found your posting interesting...

I was wondering, though, if you had any suggestions as to were do we go
from here?

I don't know if you've heard anything regarding Inprise's plans
regarding TCS.  However, failing them seeing "the error of their ways"
(If that's something that is possible for them to do -- would require a
degree of customer awareness that they haven't shown so far) it would
seem that a strong testing system would need to be in place before any
substantial source changes are undertaken.

Accordingly, I feel that we need to have a 10,000 foot overview of the
scope and breath of the "old" testing system.  Can you suggest who could
provide this information?

I'm afraid that we will (me included) get lost in the details and miss
most of the big picture.


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Harrison [mailto:har...@ne...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: int...@me...
> Subject: RE: ISC/TCS
> 
> 
> Here's my understanding of what ISC planned to do with
> the test system.
> 
>  From the beginning, we planned to release the code that
> runs the test system as part of the sources.   This is
> the test control program, not the scripts, templates, etc.
> That's what was in my list.
> 
>  From the beginning, we expected to produce "certified"
> kits - kits that had been through our testing process.
> That supposes that we have some testing process that is
> of some value.
> 
>  From early on (after a discussion with Dave Schnepper) we
> intended to release at least some of the test scripts as
> part of the open source project.
> 
>  From before the beginning, we were aware that the overall
> state of the test system was appalling. Certification took
> months, mostly documenting the failure of broken tests.
> The set of tests called "vectors" that engineering ran
> nightly are reliable.
> 
> Here it gets hard to be absolutely accurate.  I think we
> would have heard the feedback from the open source community
> and released all of the vector tests.  We didn't get to that
> point, so I don't know for a certainty what we would have
> done.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ann
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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