[QGIS-Developer] PSA: Travis CI / Docker / Failing Tests

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 2 octobre 2017 15:56:00 CEST Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> we have recently been working on bringing travis ci to the next level
> and moving all the testing that is done into a docker image.
> 
> This has the advantage that
> 
> - we can use newer dependencies for testing (currently Ubuntu 16.04
>   repos compared to 14.04 repos before)
> 
> - tests can be run locally the same way that they are run in CI (to
>   debug)
> 
> - we can upload docker images (nightlies and released versions) that can
>   be used for plugin testing (only partially implemented so far)
> 
> 
> During this process, some issues have been discovered, mostly concerning
> compatibility with newer gdal versions and most of them fixed (kudos to
> Even for his reactive and valuable help with this).
> 
> At the moment, we are left with 3 tests that are still failing:
> 
> - qgis_rastersublayertest
> - PyQgsShapefileProvider
> - PyQgsWFSProvider
> 
> The reasons that these tests fail are either because the tests
> themselves are unstable and rely on very particular behavior of the
> environment or because they actually point out real issues related to
> newer dependencies.
> 
> It would be very welcome if the original authors of these tests or the
> underlying functionality could have a look and either
> 
> - fix the tests
> - fix the underlying issues that caused the tests to fail
> - or disable the tests if they are no longer meaningful.
> 
> A patch has been prepared that disables parts of the tests that trigger
> the failures which can be used as reference to find where things go wrong:
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5256/commits/988aa78feded78634d8600c7baeb7
> 01558b23546
> 
> If there are no fixes in sight, this patch will be merged as part of PR
> 5256.

The PyQgsWFSProvider was added by me, but I won't have time to look at that in the next 
days, so go ahead.

Even

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