Karel, Continuous testing for Fossil is something I've been thinking about since I discovered it. The typical workflow on GitHub tends to be branch-merge-deploy, which gives you nice hooks to plug in a CI tool to run tests. In Fossil those lines seem to be blurred, so I haven't yet figured out what kind of testing tool could be built around Fossil. But if shoring up the test suite and making it somehow run on check-in is something that could be done, perhaps applying it to Fossil would be a good first step. I wasn't even aware of failing tests before I saw this thread.
Please let me know if you've had any similar thoughts. Jacob. On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:03 PM Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/15/18, Karel Gardas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've been always wondering how serious are various failures man gets > > from building/testing fossil release. > > Probably I should pay more attention to the tests. But the truth is, > I never run them. My way of testing Fossil is to put the latest copy > on my development machine, on https://fossil-scm.org/ and on > https://sqlite.org/ and run it for a few days. > > If you look at the very faint line at the bottom of any screen on the > Fossil self-hosting website (ex: > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline) it tells you exactly which > version of Fossil generated that screen. The version is usually the > latest trunk check-in, or if not the latest, not more than one or two > versions behind. There is a similar line at the bottom of the page on > https://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline and on various other sites I host. > > So, in other words, testing consists mostly of running Fossil in the > wild. On the SQLite and Fossil sites alone, Fossil generates about > one page-view per second. All day. Every day. > > Maybe I'm being naive, but I feel like that is plenty of testing. > > Any problems that appear when running "make test" are very likely in > the test logic, and not in Fossil. The tests in Fossil have always > been a bit dodgy. > > We'd welcome your help in making the Fossil tests better! :-) > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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