[RFC] Less testing?

[simo]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 13:45 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At the moment we test each and every RPC interface over all the
> transports over which it can be accessed and using several
> authentication methods. 
> 
> The different transports and different authentication methods already
> have their own tests, so I don't really see the point in doing so - it
> just slows down 'make test'. Originally this wasn't much of a problem,
> but now that we're at 999 tests in total, I think it's time to trim.
> 
> I would like to only run transport-related tests (RPC-SECRETS, RPC-ECHO,
> RPC-AUTHCONTEXT, RPC-MULTIBIND, etc) over multiple transports and with
> different authentication methods and run the other tests (RPC-WINREG,
> RPC-SVCCTL, RPC-NETLOGON, etc) over just one transport (ncalrpc?) and
> with simple authentication.
> 
> What do you think?

If they behave in the exact same way on all transports then it is indeed
waste, I would keep testing on multiple transports only those test the
can have different results depending on the transport used.

Simo.

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