[mapserver-dev] the state of msautotest

[thomas bonfort]

Jeff,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> Thanks Stephen and Thomas for this great work.  I also wonder if it is a
> good time to update the msautotest doc
> (http://www.mapserver.org/development/tests/autotest.html).  Would
> either of you be willing to do so?
Once we've ironed things out, you are correct the docs will need
updating a bit. However, aside from updating obsolete expected
results, the autotest suite itself hasn't changed at all, it can (and
should :) ) be run completely independently from travis.
>
> To be honest I don't understand the Travis-CI system (I think I loaded a
> web page you pointed to but it made zero sense to me ha); so I think an
> updated document is needed.
To summarize, travis-ci is just an ubuntu vm where we build mapserver
and run the autotests on the freshly compiled version. It's strength
is that it is run automatically at each commit, so we can know
immediately which commit broke which feature and act upon it
accordingly. The integration with pull-requests also shows you
immediately if a proposed pull request will break the build before
applying it.

--
thomas
>
> Thanks.
>
> -jeff
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