Hello João,
I tried to run the slime test suite this morning to see what results it produced. I'm uncertain what the proper procedure is for running the test suite, but this is what I did. I made the test suite available by including "slime-tests" in my ".emacs" file in the (slime-setup '( < other contribs > slime-tests)), which seemed to work.
I started emacs, did M-x slime, then did M-x slime-batch-test, which ran the test suite after asking me if I wanted to start a second inferior lisp (I tried it with and without). The results came out with 17 unexpected failures and I have attached a file "slime-batch-test-results.txt" which contains the contents of the *ert* buffer from emacs.
For reference, I'm running Linux Mint 14 with KDE-4.9.5 and sbcl-1.1.14 and emacs-23.4.1.
Am I using the proper procedure to run the slime test suite? In the past when I ran the test suite, it generally finished with only one/(1) expected failure and no/(0) unexpected failures. Should I expect more failures in the slime test suite with the github version of slime?
Thanks,
Paul Bowyer