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First day after Thanksgiving

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Back from Thanksgiving holidays.  Wow did I ever need the break, and I sure did use the time.  I came back barely able to remember what I was working on.  It was great!  After about an hour work of reading email I was caught up enough to start working.

We are completely test clean for the retail builds of both LKG and inbox!

This is a huge milestone.  I know we would get here at some point, but actually getting here feels quite nice.  All of our remaining work will be on the checked versions of the 2 builds.  These errors are far lower priority since they are only seen in the debug build with all debugging turned on.  This normally creates a much larger number of errors.  Almost all of which would be assert failures.

So our current status of both paths is.

  • 1 error in LKG
  • 3 errors in inbox

Curtis is working on LKG and I've taken over investigating inbox.  For LKG Curtis thinks the error is from a missing registry key.  So he has filed a bug (which allows us to RI) so we don't have to worry about LKG at all any more.  All we need to do now is check it in.  For inbox I discovered that the test box was missing Mahmoud's fix for 1 of the tests.  After the fix was applied the test passed.

At this point we are down to just 2 errors for all of these super complex projects.  Both errors are for the checked version of inbox.  I'm investigating the vs\VSData\Package\UnitTests and Curtis is working on vs\VSD\datatools\ParameterizeQuery.  Both have emails out to the test owners, but you know that's not enough.  In the mean time the investigation continues on our side.

For my error I've discovered that the test seems to be very flaky.  There are some bugs already open for the test; one for each version after ours.  I'm hoping that the changes are known (at least to the test owner) enough that I can see if reverting them could fix the test.  If that is the case then we can just file a bug and submit anyway.

Tomorrow should bring results from both emails.  The people are in China so it takes a day turnaround for us to get anything back.  I sure hope these guys have an idea of why stuff fails.

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