phil hunt wrote: > I think we might be talking at cross purposes here. To me > "acceptance test suite" means a test suite that has to be passed > each time before a new version of the software is released to the > users. I don't see that 10 minutes is a sensible limit here, unless > you are releasing more often that once a day. (I once had an > acceptance test suite that ran for 12 hours; I used to run it > nightly).
We're clearly on different wavelengths. I thought Extreme Programming was sort of the context, where the acceptance tests actually *are* run many times during the day, as well as before each new release. (A new release could technically occur more than once in a day as well, so it's a good thing if the tests take less than 12 hours.) >>Still, in a large project (and especially one written in Python, with >>the overhead of interpreter startup and the cost of executing bytecode) >>the suite can get fairly long if you have many hundreds of tests. > > I'm currently running one with 227 assertions in 38 test functions. > It runs in <1 second on an AMD 3000+. That's a nice start. ;-) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
