Re: [xml] libxml2 tests

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:01:35AM -0700, Manish Marathe wrote:
> Yes they are, thanks for that. Can anyone please let me know if I just
> add tests number for runtest, runsuite and testapi and say that there
> total 298787 (2608 + 32064 + 264115) tests for libxml2 ?

  A number of test is not a good metric. You should not count testapi
as such, it just exercises all library call to check against crashes
or memory leaks. You should read what test code do and understand it before
trying to use this as an assertion of usefulness or code coverage !

  Yes, libxml2 has regession test code
  But you still need to understand what it does before complaining
about change in those regression or trying to generate quality or
regression statements based on the behaviour of running those tests.

Daniel

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