[Contrib: Evaluation System] Errors/Failures in unit tests

[Aaron Zeckoski]

I don't see any failures in the evals tests on trunk myself but
generally speaking, a patch which causes test failures would be
rejected.

Tests run: 274, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
...
[INFO] Sakai Evaluation Project .......................... SUCCESS [6.854s]
[INFO] Sakai Evaluation API .............................. SUCCESS [2.958s]
[INFO] Sakai Evaluation Impl ............................. SUCCESS [1:25.506s]
[INFO] Sakai Evaluation Pack ............................. SUCCESS [3.177s]
[INFO] Sakai Evaluation Tool ............................. SUCCESS [52.914s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2:31.940s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jul 16 13:15:12 EDT 2013

-AZ


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Brian Jones <bjones86 at uwo.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently preparing a patch to submit to the community for new
> functionality in the evalsys, but I noticed that there are several unit
> tests that report either errors or failures during the build.
>
> I'm developing the patch against trunk of evalsys, and checked to see if the
> same failures are reported on a stock check-out of trunk; which they are. It
> reports the same two tests as failing, but in my modified branch there are a
> bunch more which report 'errors' rather than 'failures'.
>
> Should I be concerned about this with regards to submitting the patch to the
> community? Should I take the time to fix the tests that are in error? Should
> I ignore the ones that are in 'failure' as they seem to also fail in the
> stock trunk?
>
> Or maybe I should comment them out and submit the patch with that as well?
> Any input will be helpful!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Jones
> Applications Development
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>
>
>
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