Andrew, I am quite happy for you to setup a CI build for Qpid on the ASF Hudson service. I think the default profile, java.0.10 and cpp profiles will be an excellent start and would probably be good enough.
Regards, Rajith On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Andrew Kennedy < andrewinternatio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I appreciate we are in a rush to get 0.10 ready to ship, however this is no > excuse for letting testing slide. > > I have seen several instances of changes that have caused multiple > regressions under various test profiles, and this sort of thing will only > increase as the number of combinations of profiles increases. Additionally, > some commits have even prevented the project from compiling. I have done > both of these things in the past myself, particularly with regards to the > C++ test profiles, and this is one reason I spent so much time validating > and testing my network code. > > Can we all please make an effort to run at least the Java 0-8 and 0-10 and > the C++ profiles before committing changes, to give other developers > confidence that any new test failures are caused by *their* code, not > somebody else's? > > > One of my colleagues is working on increased unit test coverage via the > introduction of mock objects, which will reduce our dependency on system > tests and allow regressions to be found when testing individual components. > I agree that this is the way forward, as our test coverage is far too low > currently. However, I could not find out any solid metrics on coverage to > provide as an example. I notice that although there is a Qpid instance on > the Nemo server at Sonar (see link below) it does not give coverage metrics, > although there is a *lot* of useful information there. Does anyone know how > this could be fixed, or who in the project has access to configure this? > > http://nemo.sonarsource.org/dashboard/index/274568 > > Additionally, I would be happy to set up and manage a CI build for Qpid on > the ASF Hudson service. I believe the PMC chair just needs to grant access > (see first link below) to the correct group. This would allow us to have a > shared view of build and test statuses (see second link below) and more. I > know many of us run our own private CI instances, but I think having a > shared resource everyone in the project can refer to would be very useful. > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/Hudson > https://builds.apache.org/hudson/ > > I can raise a Qpid JIRA for this to track progress, if people approve of > the idea? > > Cheers, > Andrew. > -- > -- andrew d kennedy ? do not fold, bend, spindle, or mutilate ; > -- http://grkvlt.blogspot.com/ ? edinburgh : +44 7582 293 255 ; > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org > >
