Re: [Soaplite-devel] SOAP::Lite development - next release

[Paul K. <pau...@ya...>]

> Maybe we could make the tests optional - and say what each test is 
> testing. That way, when 40% fail next year, I can see that X Y and

In fact, all external tests were supposed to be optional; with 'no'
as the default answer to the question on whether they need to be run
(to work properly for automated/CPAN installs). Not sure what was
changed to trigger those tests.

I agree with updating the test suite and removing everything that is
not currently working.

Paul.

--- mr...@za... wrote:

> Yes. Local services are, of course, better - but cannot be counted
> on  
> being available all the time when someone is installing SOAP::Lite.
> 
> Google has a good websearch API, I believe. Amazon has one too. I  
> believe there is a National Weather Service one too. Things like
> this  
> might be a good way to test an install, as they've been around for 
> 
> years, and are not likely to disappear in the near future. Of
> course,  
> nothing is 100%.
> 
> Maybe we could make the tests optional - and say what each test is 
> 
> testing. That way, when 40% fail next year, I can see that X Y and
> Z  
> are untested because they failed, but features A B and C should
> still  
> work fine.
> 
> --Matthew
> 
> Quoting Robert Landrum <rla...@ao...>:
> 
> > Matthew Runo wrote:
> >> Yes, the test suite ran upon install has been failing for some
> time  
> >>   now. I've been ignoring it, and --force installing. I vote to 
>  
> >> remove  it - add in a couple you know are live and go for it.
> >>
> >
> > That's sort of the problem.  What is live, and what is going to
> be live
> > in perpetuity.
> >
> > It's a trivial matter to test against local services, but more
> often
> > than not, I find services written in Java, C#, etc, to be
> incompatible
> > with the current SOAP::Lite implementation... And that just
> within my
> > organization.  :(
> >
> > I found this...  http://www.xmethods.net/ilab/
> >
> > I haven't looked at the test suite, so I'm not sure how many
> these are
> > actually being tested.
> >
> > Rob
> 
> 
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