[MERGE] Move the notes on writing tests out of HACKING into a new file, and improve them.

[Adrian Wilkins]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> But it isn't going to handle specific win32 cases (like having
> FindFilesEx, etc.)

To do proper full continuous integration including testing win32 cases, you'd
need a machine (virtual or otherwise) that could be remotely called to run the
tests and return results. This might need the test suite to output more
structured output (can it?).

You might need more than one win32 machine if you start supporting Vista
features like symlinks.

I'd really like to see a test output like the Mono guys have or improved to make
it more obvious where the platform differences are (but that's obviously a big
project).

http://mono.ximian.com/tests/displayTestResults.php

http://mono-project.com/Class_Status

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