[V3dot10] testing packages

[Keith Hodges]

> Third, I am not committed to this particular testing system.  It is
> just something I threw together, and requires a bit of handholding to
> keep going.
I dont think it makes sense to have more than one solution for this. Ok 
my stuff may not be perfect but I think it deserves knocking into shape 
after all the effort I put into it.

- TestReporter is there in the improved SUnit.
- TestReporter/TestRunner can be run from the commandline if Launcher is 
installed (Installer's command line parameter handling has been 
refactored out into Launcher)
- TestReporter generates an ongoing progress report and results viewable 
via a web browser
- TestRunner also reports results via testReporter if invoked from the 
commandline
- There is a set of apache icons to give green/yellow/red/inprogress 
lights in the results directory display.
- Results are in a format that can be debugged using 'do-it's in a 
FileList (which can access remotely run tests result files via ftp). 
- Timings for tests can be exported into a datafile which can be used to 
categorise tests quick/slow/long for more efficient running.

Basically you can boot the image, do the install of the packages you 
want and run the tests all from the command line.

Installer doesnt yet support Package Universes, but it would not be 
rocket science for it to do so.

I am a bit busy for a few weeks sorry I cant help right now

best regards

Keith
> It probably won't run on anybody else's computer without
> some tweaking.  If somebody else wants to write a better one, I would
> be happy.  Otherwise I will eventually turn it into something more
> stable.  Note that what I want is a way to take a proposed image and
> see if it breaks any package.  The most important report is the one at
> http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/testResults/3.10alpha.7105.html
> For details, you can always build your own image and use TestRunner,
> so it is not so important that the testing system record the details.
>
> -Ralph
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