GSoC '10 Project Proposal: Buildbot Automated Testing System

[Arjun Comar]

That's the idea. AppInstall already runs a suite of tests on various windows
applications, its a matter of integrating that with the current test suite
and automating the whole process.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrew Fenn <andrewfenn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Arjun Comar <mandaya at rose-hulman.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >> > --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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > Sorry about the confusion!
> > --
> > Arjun Comar, Rose-Hulman '12
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



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Arjun Comar, Rose-Hulman '12
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