Recompiling quiz programs

[Chris Sharman]

>My solution -- I built a compile job a long time ago which executes a fresh
>Quiz (or Qtp) for each source file. It beats the crap out of the machine
>when it executes but that is typically after hours and in batch. Now I don't
>care what sloppy code is in the source file because it can damage only the
>one program. But if someone leaves a 'go' in the source then I make them eat
>the output and they never do it again :-)

Yes, same here. Although I search the source for "build", before accepting it.
Our problem tends to be sources that don't compile, sources that are missing,
and sources that are inter-dependent (one requires a subfile created by
another) - we have a naming convention for that.

>And having such compile jobs ready to go makes database changes trivial.
>Change the dictionary, change the base, run the compile jobs - all done in
>half an hour :-)

Rather longer for us: an hour or so to run through the compiles, a day to go
through the logged problems and kick the guilty parties, repeat.

Never seen null output myself though.

Chris
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