This is sounding like fun! My experience is mostly with Adobe (10
years) working with cross-continent & distributed dev efforts. So,
getting the chance to work with the great folks from web2py on a
"contribution model" (for the lack of a better term) sounds real
exciting to me! :)

thanks,
Mart :)

On Aug 22, 12:12 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> I propose the people most competent and interested in this subject
> form a team to work on it.
> Call for help, setup a mailing list and an IRC channel. I will be
> happy to use/incorporate a testing suite.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Aug 22, 10:57 am, Paul Gerrard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > Like Mart - I'd better declare an interest and some knowledge in this
> > area.
>
> > My company is Gerrard Consulting (www.gerrardconsulting.com) I'm very
> > active in the UK and European testing community and have written a
> > couple of books, done lots of conference work, host the UK Test
> > Management Forum (uktmf.com) etc. etc. I am using Web2py to create a
> > test management tool that we will use to support our testing services.
> > (It's mainly for test design and record keeping in large software
> > projects, rather than test execution). So I am very interested in a
> > rock-solid Web2py as my company will depend on it :O)
>
> > Right now, I'm full-on writing code and testing as we launch in mid-
> > September. But I will be creating a performance/stress test for our
> > app as we'll be making a free subset of the functionality available on
> > our servers.Obviously scalability is a concenr for us. I'll probably
> > use The Grinder (http://grinder.sourceforge.net/) to stage these
> > tests, but that won't be for 5-7 weeks I think.
>
> > I'd be very interested in collaborating to create some form of test
> > automation regime for the Web2py infrastructure and applications using
> > either available tools or maybe writing our own framework. (I'm
> > looking to build an interface from my tool to things like Fit/Fitnesse
> > (or replace them) and Selenium as I focus very much on acceptance
> > testing). This might be the subject of another thread, perhaps.
>
> > Sorry for the length of this, but I thought I should declare my hand
> > and support for a 'stabilisation period'.
>
> > Paul.
>
> > On Aug 22, 2:25 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Dear Mart,
> > > Your help is very much appreciated. In particular because I am not
> > > very knowledgeable about this aspect.
> > > I am old fashion and for me the less I use mercurial the better. For
> > > example I keep one single branch of web2py. I simply apply patches,
> > > test them, and either revert or commit. This  model has worked well
> > > for me and I would not like to change it.
>
> > > I too am uneasy with the idea of freezing but not with the idea of a
> > > testing period. How do you suggest we proceed?
>
> > > Massimo
>
> > > On Aug 22, 4:30 am, mart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Good evening all,
>
> > > > I hope no one takes offense by me jumping in, but I couldn't help
> > > > myself as the thread's subject got my attention (release management is
> > > > what I do). If you'll allow me, I'm just curious as to the narure of
> > > > your current branching strategy wrt the subject of the thread? In my
> > > > experience, freezing a code line is rarely beneficial, least of all to
> > > > the release going forward. So, was wondering if finding the correct
> > > > branching strategy (as well as defining an appropriately well matching
> > > > high level root folder structure in your source CSM) would help in
> > > > sorting out such things as separating out and accommodating the need
> > > > for stability, moving forward and any iterative requirements in your
> > > > release cycles? (I heard someone last year year - obviously someone of
> > > > the newer generation - call this "the need for speed" ;) )  But
> > > > regardless, if at all interested I'd be happy to do my part and help
> > > > out in any way I can if such plans are being considered. BTW - I was
> > > > hired to revamp and restructure release management processes last
> > > > spring for US based company, and web2py (with some Flex pieces in it
> > > > for demo purposes) was what I used to to showcase and spread the word
> > > > about the proposed changes  :)
>
> > > > On another note:
> > > > I saw that some PDF libs were on there way for web2py????  Awesome! I
> > > > am looking forward to that! :)  I made a web2py app a few weeks ago
> > > > (mixing the ReportLab's tool kit and Flex/iFrames) so that the kids in
> > > > my daughter's violin class (yeah ok, this may be a little weird,
> > > > but...) could generate fingerboard position markers (which are then
> > > > convert to printable PDF templates) so that the kids could create the
> > > > exact position markers for their instrument (I think she hates things
> > > > that are pitchy). Anyways, did not want to use LiveCycle data services
> > > > (with flex) for this (although it does do some good things), and even
> > > > though the results I got with what I used were a little ok (or most
> > > > probably, the problematic parts had something to do with the guy
> > > > writing the code :) ), generating PDF with good tooling will be great!
> > > > I'm already a fan! :)
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mart :)
>
> > > > On Aug 22, 1:02 am, Jason Brower <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Again I think we have more pressure for testing tools.  Which I agree
> > > > > on.
> > > > > BR,
> > > > > Jason
>
> > > > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 00:32 -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > > > > > On 8/20/2010 4:54 PM, Phyo Arkar wrote:
> > > > > > > -bug-squishing-contest ,
> > > > > > > -Stress test, Test everything , try to crash web2py etc.
>
> > > > > > Could we build an app to act as a test harness?
>
> > > > > > Or a script to build an app per a test case, evaluate it, then 
> > > > > > destroy
> > > > > > that app, loop etc.
>
> > > > > > Turning bug reports into test cases causes regressions to be noticed
> > > > > > quicker I would think.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -

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