Scott,
Thank you very much for all of your hard work! I agree that we need to
focus more on testing - especially as OFBiz continues to grow.
I would like to build out the unit tests in the framework/base
component, but I still need help getting that component's build.xml file
to run tests.
-Adrian
Scott Gray wrote:
It took a while but all our JUnit tests now pass, next I'd like to get a
continuous integration server set up. Can anybody recommend some tools
that they've had good experiences with? I'm trying out Apache Continuum
at the moment (eat our own dog food) but I'd love to hear from anyone
who has actual experience with an open source CI tool (I do not).
Once that is done I'd like to have it run the tests after every commit
and report any failures to the dev list. It would then be the offending
committer's responsibility (well primarily at least) to fix the problem
as soon as possible, much like a build failure. If we can't get
everyone to agree to take on that responsibility then I might as well
stop now because I'll be damned if I'm going to spend any more time
fixing tests that I didn't break :-)
Any thoughts?
After that I'll starting looking at what can be done to improve the test
tools and make tests easier to write, start looking at selenium and
start writing tests for open bug reports to be committed with the fix so
that they never occur again.
All of this should help us increase the stability of the trunk and our
confidence when taking a checkout that we won't half to spend our
development time fixing things that used to work. It'll hopefully also
encourage the community to contribute more tests with the knowledge that
doing so will increase the stability of the functionality they depend
on. Fix a bug and you're good for a day, write a test and you're good a
lifetime :-)
Regards
Scott
