[TIP] A tool to guess what tests to run given a diff?

[Ned Batchelder]

figleaf has a feature called sections which is used to track for each 
line of code which test executed it.  Is that what you're thinking of?

--Ned.

On 4/7/2011 4:15 PM, Kumar McMillan wrote:
> My search-foo is failing but I thought there was a post on TIP or
> mention somewhere in the community about a tool that can be used to
> guess what tests to run based on a diff.  Does this ring a bell?  For
> a very large test suite I'd like to take my current diff that affects
> unknown parts of the system and figure out which tests I should run.
> This obviously would never be 100% accurate but it might serve as a
> quick spot check before pushing to a continuous integration server
> that will run the whole entire suite.  Slow tests are not fun.
>
> I guess this would work in reverse to code coverage: you'd take a
> function or module and ask which tests execute that code.  Python's
> trace will probably support this but it would be nice if someone has
> already done the work to set it up.
>
> -Kumar
>
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