[plt-scheme] planet: help submitting bugs & a question

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Tue Sep 2 23:00:41 EDT 2008

Yes I was thinking of the programmer supplied test.

The automatically generated test sounds like a fun project, too :).

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> (Oh wait -- I was thinking of automatically extracting the unit test
> from the failed run. If you're talking about the programmer who
> discovered the bug doing so, then by all means, yes! My experience is
> such unit tests are often most of the work in fixing the bug.)
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Indeed, that would be great. This is one of the research projects I'd
>> like to embark on... there's some interesting technical challenges in
>> making that happen.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>> I see! Makes sense.
>>>
>>> I wonder if moving forward a "best practice" would be to write a unit
>>> test that triggers the violation and add that to the ticket.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>>> I was thinking of an "end user" as someone who uses some complete
>>>> software application (that possibly involves planet packages). Such a
>>>> person is not typically running inside drscheme and they won't see the
>>>> blue icon.
>>>
>>>
>>
>



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