[mapserver-dev] the state of msautotest

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Thomas,

Yes, we could do something like that. And/or setup a server that could
host several VMs for a variety of uses.

Mike

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Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center




On 9/21/12 4:55 AM, "thomas bonfort" <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:

>@Oliver: Thanks for suggesting the travis platform, it's a perfect fit
>for what we are testing
>
>@Mike: Thanks for the hosting offer. In the current state, travis-ci
>is largely sufficient and better than what we could have setup on our
>own in a reasonable amount of time. However providing a remotely
>accessible "reference" platform where devs can test their changes and
>add expected results might be a usefull tool. Is this something devs
>want? Mike, is opening up an ubuntu vm something possible?
>
>
>Just a quick followup on the rest:
>
>- There's an autotest wiki page in place here:
>https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Test-Suite
>
>- The Travis continuous integration is activated and operational for
>the 6.2 and master branches. The test suite will be run on any commit
>to those branches, as well as on all pull-requests submitted to the
>issue tracker (which is another reason to use pull requests rather
>than attaching patches, example here:
>https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/4044 )
>
>- I've added a number of autotests that need a postgis db to run on.
>They will evidently fail if such a db isn't available. There is
>however a script that will automatically create/populate such a db for
>you at the root of msautotest. These tests are there to validate some
>db specific features (filtering, TIME) as well as provide valgrind
>info.
>
>- There's a "make test" target in our mapserver repo, which uses the
>binaries from the source directory (i.e. there's no need to make
>install before running the test suite). The make target should ensure
>that the test suite data is downloaded on first run, however it will
>not be updated automatically, which means it is up to you to run "git
>submodule update" to catch up with updates to msautotest. The tests
>*will* fail if not all compilation options have been activated, c.f.
>the "reference platform" on the wiki page.
>
>Please provide any feedback you might have with these new tools.
>
>
>regards,
>thomas
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