Re: [Haskelldb-users] Release

[Matthias R. <mat...@so...>]

Bjorn Bringert <bri...@cs...> writes:

> I think that some sort of test suite would be very nice to have  
> before a release, but that might just be my personal opinion.

IMHO the test suite is *essential*. HaskellDB is quite a complex library
and changes in one area can have far-reaching and non-obvious
consequences. In absence of a large user base, a reasonably
comprehensive test suite is crucial for tracking down bugs. I was
horrified when I found out that the current test suite had
bit-rotted. It means that all recent changes are highly suspect and will
have most likely broken something somewhere.

Bjorn, do you know when the test suite was last run successfully? Then
we could take a look what changes were introduced since then and add
test cases for those. Ideally we'd also do coverage testing to determine
what other tests we should add to get a reasonably good coverage of the
library.

One added complication is that the test suite should be run against a
variety of db backends, in order to identify db-specific code that has
crept into the generic code base, and bugs in the db-specific code
itself.


Matthias.