Re: [gnugo-devel]

[Arend Bayer]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 address@hidden wrote:

>
> > > > ... this ``pair go'' approach will certainly complicate regression
> > > > testing of the patch. (http://www.pairgo.or.jp/home.
> > >
> > > Probably the movenum test should be disabled during regressions.
> >
> > What kinds of complications are you expecting? As far as I know
> > movenum should have stable and well determined values between
> > regression runs or if specific test cases are run separately.
>
> If the movenum test is not disabled during the regressions
> then the outcome of a test could depend on whether or not
> movenum is odd or even. This seems to invalidate the regression
> testing for the cosmic engine.

But disabling the movenum test would mean that we only test one of
the two pairgo players. It would also mean that we could not take
mistakes from games and make a regression test from it.

I think it is better to have the (admittedly a little awkward) dependence
on the move number.

Arend