Re: Update 3 on the QA Hackathon in Oslo

2008-02-05 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi Salve and others. I have added an entry to http://adserver.szabgab.com/ advertising the QA workshop. It is in English and should show up in every country. If you can send me texts in other languages as well with the appropriate country code I'd be glad to add them. See the linked yaml file to

Testing on live systems

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Lester
A cautionary tale of why we must be very careful doing tests against live systems. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Ive-Got-The-Monkey-Now.aspx -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 5 Feb 2008, at 14:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: That's what I did at $work. I store all the results in a database, and hope to come up with creative reports (especially historical ones) in the future. TAP::Parser was very helpful in collecting the test results. Cool! Nice to hear of so

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:58:39AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > Therefore, my current approach would be to hack together a few scripts > that fetch stuff from git, run the tests, collect the results, and > report them. That's what I did at $work. I store all the results in a database, and

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Feb 5, 2008, at 2:31 AM, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 11:55 AM, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could look at buildbot. It can do all of the above. It's in Python if that matters :) Or Tinderbox which was the original that buildbot copied. A

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Feb 5, 2008 11:55 AM, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could look at buildbot. It can do all of the above. It's in Python > if that matters :) > Or Tinderbox which was the original that buildbot copied. (Why did they have to keep the GUI I don't know :) Gabor

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 5 Feb 2008, at 08:58, Thomas Klausner wrote: Are there any tools/frameworks available that would (in a perfect, lazy world) to the following: * fetch various projects from git (HEAD, and some defined tags) * run their test suite * run Devel::Cover (eg via Build testcover) * run some special

Re: Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Thomas Klausner wrote: > And I presume that the various CPAN smoking tools don't fit my needs, > because they are designed to either smoke the whole of CPAN, or to send > back test results after installing a given CPAN dist. Remember that you can always bind your own local view of the CPAN with C

Smoking private dists?

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! I've recently started a new job (and a small company (which btw explains a certain CPANTS lagging on my part...)), and we want to smoke test our code. Are there any tools/frameworks available that would (in a perfect, lazy world) to the following: * fetch various projects from git (HEAD,