On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > I wonder what kind of regression testing Railo does before releasing > an update? That's not intended as a dig, but there are differences > between expectations for open-source software and commercial software, > between large vendors and small, etc.
A perfectly reasonable question. Railo has three update providers: * Bleeding Edge / Development * Preview * Stable For the Stable provider, every test engineering has is run and must pass. Since every JIRA ticket creates at least one new test, that body of tests is constantly increasing. This is recommended for production servers. For the Preview provider, consider that equivalent to 'beta' versions that have had manual testing on bug fixes or small changes to the stable version and may have had limited regression testing but haven't been run thru the full suite. This is recommended for users comfortable with testing bug fixes to verify that a reported fix is indeed correct. The BER provider is for early 'alpha' or even 'pre-alpha' testing of new features and has had only limited testing. For example, this provider currently offers early builds of the next point release of Railo - 3.3 - and partial features are made available here so users can provide early feedback and help shape them as they evolve. Once 3.3 hits release candidate state, builds will be offered on the Preview provider in preparation for it becoming the next Stable version, at which point BER will switch to early builds of 4.0. There's actually another level, not offered thru a provider, and that's "Build from source" for the more adventurous souls - and folks who want to dig deep into features (or bugs) and offer their own patches. I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you'd like more detail. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341781 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
