[Chandler-dev] Running functional tests with -O

[Grant Baillie]

On 2 Jul, 2007, at 22:36, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> D John Anderson wrote:
>> I'm really glad Grant noticed this. Running tests without asserts is
>> almost like not running tests at all. Perhaps we need a test that
>> complains when we run non-performance tests with -O so we don't make
>> this mistake again.
>
> We've always (apart from bugs) run release mode tests with -O and  
> debug
> mode tests without.

Umm ... did you mean "apart from fixing bugs" :)

<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6973>

as proposed in:

<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-September/ 
006939.html>

> Tests should not rely on assert ...

Agreed; it's not so sensible.

> and AFAIK they don't. If you see any assert calls in any unit,  
> functional or performance test it is a bug.
> The unit test framework provides assertions that work even with -O  
> (assert* methods on classes that derive from unittest), and func  
> and perf tests rely on CATS or ad hoc tests.


--Grant