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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:40:53 +0100
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To: Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tests repository
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
> On 12.03.2010, at 22:23, Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12.03.2010, at 22:06, Pierre Joye wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many tests fail because they are written for a given platform, or even
>>>> worst (from a portability point of view), only for a given
>>>> configuration (library version, system version,etc.). And that's not
>>>> about windows vs other, tests can work on a Debian/ubuntu version and
>>>> fail on another.
>>>
>>> Well, these tests should just be removed/rewritten.
>>> Php-tests should test php, not libraries
>>
>> I would be interested to know how can we test the file API without
>> testing libc, for example.
>
> see my reply to Stas.
>
> The idea is to test things which we can guarantee. If our documentation s=
ays, that function does this or that, then we should check for it and wrap =
system-calls in such way, that our "file API" always does these things or f=
ails in strict predictable manner.
> And if we can't guarantee some behaviour then we should add corresponding=
 note to documentation and we shouldn't add tests.

That's exactly (for part of the needs) what I describe in the 2nd part
of my reply.

--=20
Pierre

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