1 The ctests are not convenient tests. In this file we can attempt to log the
2 benefits and costs to using them so we can periodically evaluate which tests we
3 should keep and which we should get rid of.
5 Below are some objective costs:
7 - The time it takes to run the ctests.
8 - The email discussion back-and-forth.
10 There are also some non-objective costs. The ctests are annoying and not fun to
11 maintain, discuss, and fix. Although it's hard to measure this "annoyance"
12 cost, it should be taken into account when we review.
14 Below we can try to keep a log of which bugs are found with which ctests. This
15 way we can see which tests are the most useful. It is difficult to objectively
16 differentiate between minor bugs and important bugs.
18 The "Benefit" row gives the amount of days in-between when an issue is found
19 because of the ctests and when an issue is reported by someone not using the
22 The "ctest" row gives a ctest pattern for the tests that were affected by the
25 Examples where convergence tests took time and annoyance to figure out that
26 they were actually "false positives" (i.e., no bug that is worth the time or
29 Report :https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210125200655.e27xaaoy2belyxhw%40tallinn
32 Examples where an upstream issue was reported and ended up wasting time:
34 Report : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/836#issuecomment-1159826566
35 ctests : export/templates/Obsolete/.*American_Geophysical_Union.*_(lyx22|lyx23|pdf|dvi).*
39 Examples where bugs were fixed (more quickly) because of ctests:
41 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210126190837.pwuxhrhrikzszfrh%40tallinn
44 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=b0a33192bc5635bd1cb5596e346f9c34615ffeb4.camel%40lyx.org
51 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210218051838.jbwnemfv5ilhlsls%40tallinn
60 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210523014926.xewdr5x62br2okvy%40tallinn
63 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210528001413.56phju7dvfn4dexs%40tallinn
66 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20210529174524.idnmt5w4tvhuvyy6%40tallinn
67 Note1 : We are still not sure what to do regarding how to make it more user-friendly
68 for users to realize that "-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY" is needed for the ps2pdf converter.
69 Benefit: 14 days (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12303)
71 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20211205190238.edrtqmg3fkdr7gbo%40poole
72 Fix : 489bf46a, e3489d54
74 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220205184128.4clckanaufwmx5z4%40gary
76 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220206142559.rpgwki7wruhtasxp%40gary
79 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20220310131706.qdthdjblfpme2wew%40gary
81 ctests : examples/Welcome_pdf2
87 Examples where upstream (e.g., LaTeX packages) bugs were fixed (more quickly)
90 Fix : https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb/pull/12#event-4892099481
92 Report : (private message to Jürgen: Message-ID:<20211205192054.zbxij5butj3wdyvf@poole>)
93 Fix : some of the polyglossia commits in the range 1c36dcdc^...bf69288c
94 Benefit: Not clear. The regressions were in the development version so they
95 could have easily been caught before release.
97 Report : https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20211207200100.o27ojaftehrjfcza%40poole
101 Report : (private message to Jürgen: LyXMessage-ID:<20220216020703.la2fd5gu7yz7y7dc@gary>)
102 Fix : https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/commit/c7489ebaf8c66a7e4fe2529de7068ebb79c68812
103 Benefit: Not clear. The regressions were in the development version so they
104 could have easily been caught before release.
105 ctests : export/export/lyx2lyx/revert-languages-polyglossia-primary_lyx22
108 Report : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/836
109 Fix : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/878a4715df024fc3425d2bfd5d3d138b9395c178
110 ctests : doc/EmbeddedObjects
113 Report : https://github.com/gsilano/EuropeCV/issues/29
118 Report : https://github.com/schlcht/microtype/issues/21
119 upstream: https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/880
121 ctests : export/templates/Articles/Hebrew_Article_.*(dvi|pdf|pdf2|pdf3)