What's up with gcov.php.net?

8 years ago by Andrea Faulds — view source

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Hi everyone,

If any of you have looked at http://gcov.php.net any time in the last
three years, you'll probably have noticed an alarming and inexplicably
high number of test failures. And if you've looked at Travis, you'll
have seen much more reasonable numbers (i.e. usually zero).

So, I'd like to ask, why does gcov.php.net always show such high
numbers, and apparently has things that are fixed show up as broken, and
secondly, since we use Travis for continuous integration these days, why
is the box even still running?

Thanks!

Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/

8 years ago by Michael Wallner — view source

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Hi everyone,

If any of you have looked at http://gcov.php.net any time in the last three years, you'll probably have noticed an alarming and inexplicably high number of test failures. And if you've looked at Travis, you'll have seen much more reasonable numbers (i.e. usually zero).

A guess might be, that many of the tests run on gcov are disabled on travis.

So, I'd like to ask, why does gcov.php.net always show such high numbers, and apparently has things that are fixed show up as broken, and secondly, since we use Travis for continuous integration these days, why is the box even still running?

gcov is about coverage too, so…

Anyway, you’ve probably got to talk to Nuno; IIRC he was/is managing the gcov box.

Cheers,
Mike

8 years ago by Xinchen Hui — view source

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Hey:

Hi everyone,

If any of you have looked at http://gcov.php.net any time in the last
three years, you'll probably have noticed an alarming and inexplicably high
number of test failures. And if you've looked at Travis, you'll have seen
much more reasonable numbers (i.e. usually zero).

A guess might be, that many of the tests run on gcov are disabled on
travis.

So, I'd like to ask, why does gcov.php.net always show such high
numbers, and apparently has things that are fixed show up as broken, and
secondly, since we use Travis for continuous integration these days, why is
the box even still running?

gcov is about coverage too, so…

and also valgrind, which is quite useful, since it takes too long to run in
laptop.

thanks

Anyway, you’ve probably got to talk to Nuno; IIRC he was/is managing the
gcov box.

Cheers,
Mike

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Xinchen Hui
@Laruence
http://www.laruence.com/

8 years ago by Ferenc Kovacs — view source

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Hey:

Hi everyone,

If any of you have looked at http://gcov.php.net any time in the last
three years, you'll probably have noticed an alarming and inexplicably
high
number of test failures. And if you've looked at Travis, you'll have seen
much more reasonable numbers (i.e. usually zero).

A guess might be, that many of the tests run on gcov are disabled on
travis.

So, I'd like to ask, why does gcov.php.net always show such high
numbers, and apparently has things that are fixed show up as broken, and
secondly, since we use Travis for continuous integration these days, why
is
the box even still running?

gcov is about coverage too, so…

and also valgrind, which is quite useful, since it takes too long to run in
laptop.

thanks

which is also explains some of the differences between the test failures,
running the testsuite with valgrind can find much more memory leaks
compared to the simple run-tests run on travis

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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu