Packages with missing %check

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky 
<sochotnicky at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Because unit tests are designed to be run as part of the build
> process. It's not impossible to run them *after* the build, but good
> luck making it work reliably across all packages without manual work.
> 
The https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/InstalledTests
initative, as implemented by gnome-continuous, takes these "unit tests" 
as you call them and runs them as what you call integration tests.  
(Personally, I think distinguishing them is a broken idea.  No one runs 
just one bit of software, they run a tree - a complete system)

For example, after glib changes, I rerun the *gtk* tests.  After gtk 
changes, I rerun *application* tests.

This simple change of taking existing valuable tests that were run at 
once most per build and turning them into something run 50 or more 
times a day made them much more valuable.  It also revealed many of 
them were full of race conditions...



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