Re: [Firebird-test] What does this mean?

[Ann H. <har...@ne...>]

>>Mark O'Donohue wrote:
>
>I presume these are the tests then that require a good cleanup
>and rethink anyway.  I assume the chances of Inprise doing this
>are about zero.

I don't know what Inprise is likely to do.  I do know that the
crashme test that MySQL has would be a good candidate to include
in our suite.

>It's interesting, if this was one of the main cost items, I
>wonder how they would plan to go in selling it or use of it.

Price is what a buyer will pay.  The cost to Inprise of
licensing the test suite was much less of an issue than
the value of the tests to us.

>How would you rate it, I would guess that the TCS suite
>gets rid of the obvious bugs, but how much value does
>running the QA suite add to say running TCS on all
>client/server platforms, and putting in some volume/stress tests.

None.  If we run both the development & production builds
against what Inprise has released and create some sort of
multi-user high contention test, Firebird releases should
be at least as stable as Inprise releases.  We can pick
up and validate crashme and the other open source database
tests that are kicking around.

The fact that there was no test in the nightly runs or
the QA suite that tried to create a second generator page
suggests something of the completeness of those tests.

Regards,

Ann