GSoC '10 Project Proposal: Buildbot Automated Testing System

[Andrew Fenn]

I don't think it would hurt to run tests on the latest revisions
coming out. What might be more useful (and more complicated) is to
automate the building then running of popular windows programs on the
latest versions. When a failure is detected you could then run an
automated regression test to find the bad patch and submit it.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Arjun Comar <mandaya at rose-hulman.edu> wrote:
> Right, sorry, didn't mean to make it seem like there was nothing in place
> already. Buildbot just seems more easily extensible.
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> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Arjun Comar <mandaya at rose-hulman.edu>
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>> > --Buildbot--
>> > To keep from seeming pedantic, I'll be brief with this one. Automating
>> > testing suites are awesome and help keep down the number of
>> > bugs/regressions
>> > that pop up. It'd be really cool if Wine had something like this.
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>> To be clear, Wine *does* have something like this already, but
>> it's kind of fragmented, and only a few people know how
>> to run all the pieces.  The value of Buildbot might be that
>> it's a popular system, so more people will be able to participate
>> in running more pieces of, and adding to, our automated build & test.
>> - Dan
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> Sorry about the confusion!
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> Arjun Comar, Rose-Hulman '12
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