(I'm cross-posting this note to both the Dart and CMake mailing lists. I
hope that's ok.)
How can I make my software become another Dart client similar to CMake's ctest?
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Testing_With_CTest
http://public.kitware.com/Dart
Details:
Is the Dart XML client-to-server "interface specification" documented
somewhere? Is there a library/module I can integrate in my stuff to do
this, easily or not? And...how easy will this be to make? Can anyone,
possibly from the CMake/ctest team, provide any pointers?
I'm going to take a look at CMake's 'ctest' utility for my project's
test-reporting purposes. However, I'm considering having said software be
able to (as an "embedded" module or the like) speak "Dart" directly so any
client I want can instantly report info back to a Dart server (even for
product software released in the field if we so desire). If I/we do this,
I'll no doubt be referencing ctest's source code for this; and if it's not
already done, we'll probably look to make said capability a reusable
module/library for this in the future.
Alas, don't look for any Java modules out of my project in the near
term. We as of yet don't have any Java-based requirements or
components. We are mostly a C++ based shop, but in a very-cross-platform
sort of way (currently include mingw, debian, rhel/centos, and expanding to
macosx, freebsd, and others later).
Also: we may be using ctest "straight up" for now if we need to get our
tests running right away. Alas, I have yet to thoroughly investigate ctest.
After a discussion I had with Dan Blezec this morning, I suspect that a
move like the one above may be the kind of thing that was long-term
envisioned by the Dart-system designers. I understand that the Dart server
is a passive mechanism that simply listens for specific XML-based input
(over an XML-RPC network "channel") that can quite flexibility receive any
and all sort of info via this channel, so long as the info is properly
formatted...and I want to submit these properly-formatted test reports to
my Dart server natively from my project's applications.
This is exactly the sort of "test-data" repository server I had envisioned
to set up with my distributed test system (for my project's software), and
I was struggling to determine how to quickly quickly build a subsystem to
support this. A Dart server and ctest-like "embedded" seems to solve this
problem easily, and I'm quite thankful for this work done by the Dart and
CMake teams.
-Matt
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