Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
by Chris2048 on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:23AM
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OK, so don't then. You are still in a bubble, important or otherwise. You can't expect me to throw out the service manual for my old Volvo because NASA wouldn't build a space probe to those standards.
Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
by jcrben on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:21AM
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Are you suggesting that the Linux kernel is unit tested? Last I checked, I couldn't find them. And discussions online say the same (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543336 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544306). Kernel bugs tend to show up in userspace.
Fortunately, integration-oriented projects have arisen more recently such as https://kernelci.org/ and https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/
Anyhow, it would make me a bit sad if the v8 team is writing unit tests tightly coupled to the implementation. I've messed around with the codebase and I didn't see tests like that - could you point to some?
Sure, you have requirements from management. So do architects and engineers for building bridges. Yet they still have a duty to build bridges that don't fall down.