[Shootout-list] Ray tracer (test collections)

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:57:29 +0200


Robert Seeger wrote:
> It's not so much "solving a problem" as it is "making the collection of 
> tests more useful".

if anybody insists on problem solving you can rephrase this to:
it solves the problem of having all tests in one large heap, where it is 
difficult to find out which tests are meaningful (to the person looking).


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> By allowing one to pick certain groupings of tests to look at easily, it 
> makes the overall test results more useful, since it's easier and faster 
> to focus on the tests that are applicable to what one finds useful in a 
> language.

very well argued. i agree.

please take a look at
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2004-November/000814.html
for further inspiration.


bengt