Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> I did run regression testing, the test suite that GNU grep has.
Does that test suite include a test for the bug you fixed? If not,
running it before committing this particular patch was close to useless.
By definition, a regression test is designed to trigger a specific bug
so the developer(s) can make sure it is not reintroduced at some later
point once it's been fixed. Standard procedure is for the developer to
write a regression test *before* fixing the bug, and verifying that the
test fails when run against the unpatched code and succeeds when run
against the patched code.
DES
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