Hello Marti,

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 17:41:56 +0000
"Bolivar, Marti" <Marti.Bolivar@...> wrote:

Hi Paul,

These are important questions, and I'm glad you've asked them. I will
try to provide a fair amount of detail along with short answers.

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Of course, no test suite is perfect, but I hope this addresses your
concerns, or at least answers your questions. We're always trying to
improve the test suite and welcome any suggestions.

It definitely does, and I much appreciate the detailed response
(hopefully you wrote it not just as a response, but also a checklist
for yourself, confirming there're no obvious things missed). It
actually took some time to go in detail thru it, and I agree that good
thought was put into various cases, it works close to the best possible
(and I'm conservative only because I didn't use it much enough).

To address a potential follow-up, I am looking into adding better
coverage metrics to the test suite (it's tricky because a lot of the

Sounds great, and even the test file you referred to is 20K, so testing
coverage is definitely not "bare". My only concern would be that
maintaining west has become a non-trivial endeavor, but I guess, that
part is covered, so all readers of the original and this thread should
be happy about it!


Thanks again!

Thanks,
Marti

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Best Regards,
Paul

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