Re: [Tails-dev] Automated tests specification

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Lähettäjä: bertagaz
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Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] Automated tests specification
Hi,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 12:04:39PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> bertagaz wrote (28 Aug 2015 14:24:51 GMT) :
> >
> > But then, often the screen capture are enought to identify why
> > a step failed to run.
>
> In my experience, sometimes, what would help understanding the problem
> has disappeared a while ago when we hit the timeout, fail, and take
> a screenshot. That's why I almost always turn on --capture when I'm
> doing TDD.


Ack. Got the point.

> So, I invite you to reconsider the option of storing videos of failed
> test suite runs. A first iteration could keep *all* videos for the
> entire test suite — presumably this should be just a glob to add to
> the list of artifacts we archive, right? If it's more work for you,
> let me know.


No, it shouldn't change much as you say.

> > I don't expect this last one to raise a lot of discussions, so let say that the
> > deadline for this thread is next Sunday 12pm CEST unless some points are still
> > not clear. I think the rest has already been discussed and drafted enough.
>
> Sorry I wasn't available during these 48 hours.


My bad, I don't know why I've put such a deadline, but known OTOH that
you wouldn't be available on the week-end.

bert.