Re: GNOME goal candidates

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

On 02/28/2017 04:05 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> Regarding installed tests. The benefits of installed tests versus make
> check tests are not very clear to me. I don't think it should be
> necessary to install the tests in order to be able to run and test
> applications. That indicates a failure somewhere in the test
> infrastructure.

In-tree tests are beneficial to application developers.

Installed tests are beneficial to distributions, systems implementer, 
automated QA, etc.