Rev 3328: Add NEWS entry. in file:///v/home/vila/src/bzr/experimental/faster-selftest/

[Vincent Ladeuil]

At file:///v/home/vila/src/bzr/experimental/faster-selftest/

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revno: 3328
revision-id: v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr-20080401094234-ied49b94be3tiwlq
parent: v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr-20080401093717-u3oywqologcr1s7d
committer: Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr>
branch nick: filter-by-module-test-loader
timestamp: Tue 2008-04-01 11:42:34 +0200
message:
  Add NEWS entry.
modified:
  NEWS                           NEWS-20050323055033-4e00b5db738777ff
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       failing test.  Be aware that using this feature is likely to cause
       spurious test failures if used with the full suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
 
+    * selftest --load-list now uses a new more agressive test loader that will
+      avoid loading unneeded modules and building their tests. Plugins can use
+      this new loader by defining a load_tests function instead of a test_suite
+      function. (a forthcoming patch will provide many examples on how to
+      implement this).
+      (Vincent Ladeuil)
+
     * selftest --load-list now does some sanity checks regarding duplicate test
       IDs and tests present in the list but not found in the actual test suite.
       (Vincent Ladeuil)