[OpenLayers-Dev] manual acceptance tests

[Pierre GIRAUD]

I think we currently hope that committers are sure to get all tests
passed before they commit.
Isn't it enough if we trust them ?

Pierre

On Nov 9, 2007 9:29 PM, Erik Uzureau <erik.uzureau at metacarta.com> wrote:
> This sounds like a brilliant idea to me and I am heavily in favour.
>
> It seems like just adding one directory might be a little short though
> maybe we could do something like:
>
> openlayers/trunk/tests/acceptance
> and
> openlayers/trunk/tests/unit (for the current file-by-file tests?)
>
> Also, I think its probably a good time to start looking into a
> post-commit hook (only on trunk, of course) that runs the unit tests.
> I don't personally have the first clue as to how to do that but
> someone out there must? I think it would be a helpful addition to our
> process and (realistically) wouldn't hinder the dev process hardly at
> all.
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> On 11/9/07, Tim Schaub <tschaub at openplans.org> wrote:
> > Hey-
> >
> > Our automated tests are a mix of acceptance and unit tests.  These are
> > nice (because they are automated), but we need more (manual) acceptance
> > tests to fully test things like the renderers.
> >
> > Instead of scattering manual acceptance tests in the examples directory,
> > I'd like to have an "acceptance" directory in our "tests" directory (or
> > "manual" if that makes more sense to folks).  This would make it clear
> > for developers what acceptance tests needed to be run manually, and
> > would make it less confusing to users who poke around the examples
> > directory and stumble into the weird examples that are actually tests
> > (speaking for myself here).
> >
> > Anyone opposed?  Or got a better idea?
> >
> > Barring feedback, I think I'll make such a change on Monday.  (This will
> > only involve adding a directory to the tests directory and starting to
> > compile regular manual acceptance tests there.)
> >
> > Tim
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