[OpenLayers-Dev] Automated Testing

[Paul Spencer]

Chris, this seems like a great approach.  I'm running the tests in IE  
6 right now and would like to help on fixing up Safari tests if  
possible.  I have some time to put into it this week if you can use  
me.  I don't want to repeat what others are doing so please let me  
know what I should start with/focus on.

Paul

On 16-Dec-07, at 8:51 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Semi-Automated testing is now here.
>
> To throw yourself into the automated testing pool, simply go to:
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/tests/auto-tests.html?run=all
>
> in IE or FF. (Safari doesn't work at all, and Opera has a number of
> failures which I haven't yet debugged.)
>
> This page will automatically reload every 20 minutes and run again.
> (Okay, this is perhaps a bit much, given our current commit rate,  
> but I
> haven't yet got it to the point where it can check if the code has
> changed and run it again... hopefully I'll get there at some point.)
> You can leave your browser open doing this, and it should act as an
> 'automatic' testing instance.
>
>
> The results are posted to http://openlayers.org/test/results.cgi ,  
> with
> failures getting a seperate HTML page with the total test text, and an
> email being sent to the new autotest list:
>
> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/autotest
>
> I'm going to work on setting up an IE machine at work to run the tests
> -- I haven't actually tested with IE yet -- which would let us get
> reports if we commit anything which causes the tests to fail in IE,  
> and
> hoepfully get one set up the same in FF.
>
> Next on my list is getting a couple of minor tests running against
> single file builds -- the primary thing with those being just to test
> that they compiled correctly, rather than that they're providing the
> full support of the library. That way, when I commit something that
> breaks the build, I can take responsibility for it and fix it.
>
> And then, of course, there's the need to fix the tests in Opera and
> Safari, so we can get testing going on those as well.
>
> I'm working hard to figure out how we can make OpenLayers more  
> resilient
> against a slightly less weighty commit process, so that we can open up
> development more. For the past several months, the code has not  
> changed
> much, and I think a big reason is just the fact that we don't have the
> infrastructure in place to make rapid development tenable. I'm hopeful
> we can fix this through the use of technology, and accelerate the pace
> of OpenLayers development in the process.
>
> If any of this seems like a wrong path to anyone, please feel free to
> let me know, and I can back all this out -- there's really not much to
> it, but having 'broken the build' several times this weekend, I felt
> like I needed to make up for it, and this is my first attempt.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
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