Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, K.King k.king177@ntlworld.com wrote:
<<< That's not useful. The whole point is that we don't want to spend the effort required to keep the tests error-free on platforms that we don't care about. That makes it easier to write tests for platforms that actually matter, which is a more productive use of everybody's time.
You may not care, but I know a number of people who do. For some running the older software is more important, of interest, or use.
A majority of that effort is rewriting tests to make win9x happy, not rewriting behavior to fix win9x applications.
Few people (if any) want to intentionally break win9x applications, but spending a large amount of developer effort to maintain the tests there isn't really the best investment, when it could instead be spent fixing real bugs.
This I do agree with. I'm working on tests for richedit and the expected reaction of the Win9x version is much different than the reaction of the WindowsXP version.
I could drop the Win9x tests and concentrate on Windows 2000 and higher. Would this be a good course of action?
James McKenzie
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James Mckenzie