Re: making testing a higher priority

[Rob Browning]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> What about the idea of stopping work on new language features and
> performance improvements, and going all-out to make a really thorough
> test suite?
> 
> Once the test suite is done, other kinds of work are likely to go
> much more smoothly.

I'm in favor of much more testing, but given time constraints, I'm
going to have to take it piecemeal.  I'm thinking of trying to at
least add tests whenever I'm fixing bugs or adding new features.

We'll see how it goes, but in general, I agree with you.

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Rob Browning
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