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Re: testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, Zhou, Wenjian/åæå <zhouwj-fnst at cn dot fujitsu dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:33:08 -0600
- Subject: Re: testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base
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On 11/06/2015 07:45 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
>> I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
>> And most of them can be classified easily.
>> I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.
>
> (One would do this more by making new sibling subdirectories
> beside rather than within systemtap.base)
>
>> But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.
>
> What value do you see to such a change?
I see some value in such a change, but I think the biggest disadvantage
to such a change is that comparing test results between releases becomes
quite difficult if the testsuite is rearranged.
At the current point, I think the disadvantages outweighs the advantages.
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