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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-01-03 16:52:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-01-05 08:12:38 -0700 |
| commit | f76a37eee0000f6a072c67f029ebeb2ad028143f (patch) | |
| tree | da272cfe0de99dcff1de8f4a64e8e366e4ad5fd6 /pod/perlrepository.pod | |
| parent | 94bc412f1f7b3d506c2ea51a781e3dd55c1c8492 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f76a37eee0000f6a072c67f029ebeb2ad028143f.tar.gz | |
perlrepository: Add example of why tests need running
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diff --git a/pod/perlrepository.pod b/pod/perlrepository.pod index 0ae0ce49e8..16e96f766a 100644 --- a/pod/perlrepository.pod +++ b/pod/perlrepository.pod @@ -934,7 +934,13 @@ this document =item * Run the test suite. You might not think that one typo fix would break -a test file. You'd be wrong +a test file. You'd be wrong. Here's an example of where not running the +suite caused problems. A patch was submitted that added a couple of +tests to an existing .t. It couldn't possibly affect anything else, so +no need to test beyond the single affected .t, right? But, the +submitter's email address had changed since the last of their +submissions, and this caused other tests to fail. Running the test +target given in the next item would have caught this problem. =item * |