Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Good point.

Perhaps a condition of participation in a Package would be contribution 
of a very small smoke test plugin that demonstrates that the participant 
has some plausible activity after installation. These could form the 
basis of an automated package test that would uncover many missing 
dependencies.

For instance for OCL, I already have tests that do a minimal amount of 
editor liveness testing on an example project, which gives me some 
confidence that Xtext is still there in a useable fashion.

    Regards

        Ed Willink


On 04/07/2013 10:25, Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> I would go even further, are the current packages really tested anyway?
> There are probably a couple ppl opening them up to see if things are at the right place but I can't imagine that a heavy testing is done.
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> From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren
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> On 2013-07-03 23:42, Ian Bull wrote:
> > While I do think most of this could be automated -- including the
> > creation of the packages -- we need to question if this will inevitably reduce quality.
> I think quality comes from extensive automated testing and then hands-on usage. A fully automated release process would of course cover the first. So the question is really, do we want our users to do the hands-on testing for us? That in turn, begs the question, aren't we doing that already? Assuming that many projects do, then a more frequent release cycle will actually increase quality, not the opposite. And it shortens the bug-fixing cycle dramatically.
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> - thomas
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