[Incubator] autobuild/autotest for OSGeo projects

[Paul Spencer]

appologies if this has been brought up before (I searched the archive  
and didn't see anything relevant).  Has anyone thought of  
investigating tinderbox (http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html) for  
this purpose, especially for the larger projects that need to be  
'built' on multiple platforms?

Cheers

Paul

On 27-Mar-06, at 1:05 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Mapbuilder has an automated build (using ant) but we don't have  
>> automated testing yet.
>
> Cameron,
>
> When you say this is an automated build, do you mean in the sense that
> it gets automatically built on some server every so often (ie. daily)
> or just automatic in the sense that having makefiles is automatic?  I
> haven't really used ant much, but just thought of it as a make analog.
>
> Ideally "autobuilds" would be setup to occur on a system somewhere
> on a schedule, and there would be some sort of notification, either
> as a web page or a status email if the builds are not working.
>
>> We have started looking into automated testing, but we are still  
>> many months away from having a comprehensive test suite.  (JS  
>> tools are a long way behind java and C tools).
>
> I'm a big fan of starting with a small test suite, getting it "into  
> play"
> and then growing it as time permits, especially focusing on adding  
> to it
> for any new functions or old functions that get fixed.   I am  
> certainly
> not suggesting we require a comprehensive test suite for foundation
> projects.
>
> Best regards,
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