[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by nexialys

try/error is the best regression test possible... the more you code, the more you know how codes have to be made anyway.. you can't be perfect on first try... (ok, i am, but hey, i have 20 years of coding in the hands.)

Ditto, my friend, I started serious coding in 1973, including professional responsibility for leading the maintenance team responsible for a million line commercial package, but careers and approaches move on. I do understand the value of hand-on testing but also the need for more automated approaches when the task become too big.

To give a sense of scale, the modification I'm talking about is currently about 25K lines of code, and has gone through over a hundred main releases over four full versions of vbulletin during the last five years, each time offering significant changes in feature set and extensions. I've not seen any regression tools that are well-suited to handling the testing task. Has anyone else?