On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > anyone have experience with buildbot? > http://ci.apache.org/buildbot.html > > Should we plan to get whirr setup with buildbot or hudson? I've not used > buildbot but it seems to have many features. One thing it seems to lack vs > hudson is automatic patch testing (such as hadoopqabot). Is there benefit to > having both?
I think patch testing is useful enough to go with Hudson. I don't have any experience of Buildbot, though. The other thing to think about is segregating unit and system tests. Hudson (or Buildbot) can run unit tests, but system tests use a cloud provider, so we run into the problem of making credentials available to Hudson in a secure way. Jclouds has plans for a mock compute provider (http://anyweight.blogspot.com/2010/05/jclouds-hones-api-for-simplicity-and.html), so this may allow us to move a lot of the testing effort to unit tests (although we would still need some system tests that run on real providers). Tom > > Patrick >
