[Calypso] Include failing tests or not?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at jelmer.uk
Wed Jan 27 07:00:30 PST 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45:52PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hi.  Just for fun and to get an idea about the robustness of calypso, I
> sifted through my mail archive and picked some example calendar entries
> I have seen over the years.  In the branch available from
> <URL: https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/calypso/tree/test-client-formats >,
> I now try to load these files
> 
>   from-google-calendar-70.ics
>   from-lotus-notes-6.ics
>   from-lotus-notes-8.ics
>   from-mozilla-calendar-1.ics
>   from-tripsync.ics
>   from-zimbra-calendar.ics
> 
> And all except one loads just fine in calypso.  The file from Lotus
> Notes 8 fail with "'tuple' object has no attribute 'tzinfo'", no idea
> why.
> 
> And this bring me to my question.  Should such test cases be added to
> the "official" test suite, even if they are failing?
Testing with a few problematic ICS files seems like a good idea to me.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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