Checkins and test passing

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

So (my constant refrain) perhaps a wiki page to clarify what these terms
mean?  Malcolm you are ideally placed to write such a thing, since you
know what your misunderstanding was...

Somewhere here perhaps?
	http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: cvs-all-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-all-bounces at haskell.org]
On Behalf Of Malcolm
| Wallace
| Sent: 23 October 2006 15:24
| To: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Checkins and test passing
| 
| Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
| 
| > Malcolm, you're misunderstanding the use of the term "fail" in this
| > context.  I  stated it in that message, but you cut off the quote:
| >
| >     fail     = "exhibits incorrect behaviour"
| >
| > This makes perfect sense in the context of the result of a
particular
| > *test*.  You want to know whether the test demonstrated incorrect
| > behaviour of the thing  you were testing; whether the thing returned
a
| > non-zero exit code or not is  beside the point.
| 
| Ah, yes I'm sorry, I was indeed misunderstanding.  The difference
| between "program failure" and "test failure" is pretty subtle.
Although
| in most cases they are the same thing, there is a possibility that a
| non-failing program could be a failing test, and a non-failing test
could
| involve a failing program.
| 
| Regards,
|     Malcolm
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