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Discussion on: What's the longest build time you've experienced?

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Thibaut Andrieu

I use to work on a C++ project, wrapped in Java and .NET. The full build+test took about 10h, depending on the machine.

One day, we were pissed off fixing bugs in the same part of code again and again, so we wrote a test to test all the possible combination of values (only nominal ones, not even limit case or stress case). After a few hours of running, which seemed quite long, we had a look to progress to estimate how long it would takes.

This test would require more than 300 years to run... Yeah, combinatorial explosion...

We end up continuing fixing bugs case by case and add a test case when user report a bug...