How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 11:32:32 UTC 2014


On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:54:42 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I've started working to identify packages with missing upstream test suites 

You will need to have a clear idea about _what to test_ in a test-suite
(and how to implement it). Else it would be a waste of time to even think
about filing bugs at Fedora or upstream.

> or not running the tests in %check. Having a list of hundreds of packages now I 
> need to prioritize them somehow. This will help in later steps when spec files 
> need to be fixed or somebody wants to start working with upstream on writing a 
> test suite.
> 
> My idea is to take all bugs against Fedora in the last few years (or releases). 
> Packages with bigger number of bugs receive higher priority than those with 
> less. Then based on this prioritize.

Same as above. Only if there is an idea how to decrease the number of bug
reports by avoiding runtime problems via the results of a test-suite, that
could become productive.


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