Re: Test code is worth the space

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:03:19PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > My own position is based on having maintained a pg_regress suite an order of
> > magnitude larger than that.  I don't know why that outcome was so different.

> And does your pg_regress test suite actually find many bugs or does it
> mainly detect when functionality has changed and require updating
> expected results to match?

It found plenty of bugs and required plenty of expected output updates.

> >> I suspect any effort to significantly improve Postgres test coverage is
> >> doomed until there's an alternative to pg_regress.
> >
> > There is the src/test/perl/TestLib.pm harness.
> 
> Sadly I think the test suite is only half the battle.

Certainly.