[Bioc-devel] "extra" unit tests

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

Emphatic +1

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> On Oct 25, 2017, at 9:56 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think we need to think about this in the long term. Can we add support
> for these major tests in the build system, perhaps not every day, but every
> week or month?  The alternative, that it is up to the developer, is not
> great I think.  We should still advocate for people writing quicker tests,
> but there are some things which just take time.  The advantage of the build
> system is that it gets tested on the official 3 platforms, with official
> setup.
> 
> Best,
> Kasper
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Michael Lawrence <
> lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like BiocCodeTools should start checking whether people are using
>> that and at least make a NOTE of it.
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Peter Hickey <peter.hickey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> A partial answer if you are using the 'testthat' framework: you can use
>>> `testthat::skip_on_bioc()` to specify that a test should be skipped if it
>>> is running on the BioC build machines. The test will otherwise be run
>>> (e.g., during local development). There are some other
>> `testthat::skip*()`
>>> functions that may also be useful.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Pete
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 at 12:47 Levi Waldron <lwaldron.research at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts about how to implement optional or "extra" unit tests,
>> that
>>>> are too resource intensive to be part of the Bioconductor daily builds,
>>> but
>>>> that should be run once in a while, say with major updates?
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