[OpenLayers-Dev] manual acceptance tests

[Erik Uzureau]

Oh totally, that's why it would be a post-commit and not pre-commit hook :-)
We trust they'll do it, we just send a little robot behind to make sure they
did their job. Sometimes people forget. sometimes people don't test in both
browsers, etc....

Erik

On 11/9/07, Pierre GIRAUD <bluecarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > e
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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