Visibility of progress (was: Re: [ANN] BaseImage Tests on SqueakMap)

goran.hultgren at bluefish.se goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
Mon Mar 3 10:13:22 UTC 2003


Hi all!

Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Hey Marcus, that's wonderful. 
> 
> I was wondering about something and maybe someone can help with this.
> 
> I think it could greatly help if we had a machine that did various
> things with code every so often, and submitted mail reports on the
> results. 
> For example, take a clean image, load in SmallLint, load latest updates
> and then - 
>  - Run SLint it on the whole image
>  - Run all tests (including those in your package)
>  - Run a few more scripts I can provide depending on Spaghetti Tracer to
> let us know how much "spaghetti" still remains in the image.
> And then create an XML report. It should do this for every update
> loaded, so people can see what updates solved problems, what updates
> created problems, and so forth
> 
> The reports should be available on the net, and also could be sent to
> the mailing list every week.

Yes, this is similar to what I had in mind. Mozilla has their Tinderbox
etc and I was thinking if we couldn't set up a frantic "build server"
that starts a clean SM enabled image, loads packages, run their tests
and best of all - combine packages in different ways.

Just verifying that a package installs without an exception is useful.

regards, Göran



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