hi,
jvoisin wrote (13 Jun 2012 19:24:39 GMT) :
> >> I also strongly suggest looking at grml's setup (that uses kantan).
> >> Pointers and resources there:
> >> https://tails.boum.org/todo/automated_builds_and_tests/#index8h2
> Did you do so, and if you did, what was the outcome?
> I studied every ways proposed by this pages (and other too) yesterday,
> and I played with autotest today.
> In my opinion, Kantan/grml is interesting, but despite the author's
> efforts, still too specific.
OK. I'd be happy to hear on what aspects it is more specific, so that
I can update our wiki page with useful (and verifiable,
updatable) information.
> OpenSuse has an intresting architecture, but it's not very usable.
What do you mean by "not very usable"? (Same need.)
> Autotest is quite complete and very nice. You where right, the NIH
> syndrome influenced me. But still, this project is huge. I'm not
> sure that I want to/can spend time to setup it (altough a nice thing
> like this one would be amazing for Tails). What do you think ?
Yeah, sure, don't spend a month setting up autotest.
If we do implement such an infrastructure, then you'll want to plug
into it at some point, though.
> (Ho, by the way, too sad that I don't know some ruby :
> the RSpec and Autotest combo seems to be truely amazing !)
> Another (simpler/quicker) solution would be to use lettuce
> and QEMU.
I think you should now either come up with some (possibly basic)
testing system *soon*, or give up with actually *running* the tests.
This research was supposed to be done during the community bonding
period, and we're now quite far from that.
However, please try to emulate a BDD workflow, even if the tests are
not run: keep in mind to write your stuff in a way that is easily
testable, and please keep up with the scenarios as a way to
communicating specs and expectations with the rest of the Tails
community :)
Cheers,
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