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Re: [epp-dev] Testautomation for EPP
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+1 The proposal sounds great to me! Having an automated test suite
working across platforms would help tremendously to validate package
builds.
Steffen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Felix Ziesel <Felix.Ziesel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi EPP Team,
>
> I work as Test Consultant for BREDEX. We maintain the functional testing
> tool Eclipse Jubula (http://www.eclipse.org/jubula). Jubula is part of the
> Indigo release.
>
> We'd like to support the EPP team by writing automated smoke tests with
> Jubula. We talked to Markus about this topic and came to the conclusion that
> this would be helpful to the package maintainers.
>
> The idea is to provide basic testing for all packages and more specific
> tests for packages we are familiar with or which provides us with some sort
> of test specification (which means you just tell us what your are doing now
> to test your EPP package). Smoke test will be
> * Installation tests (unzipping/untarring)
> * file permission tests
> * basic functions: welcome screen, online help, project creation/deletion
> * rough check if all features are installed
> * Installation of additional features and Software Update
> * whatever is needed by a particular EPP package (you tell us).
>
> Of course you are free to specify your own tests with Jubula. We would be
> glad to help you getting up to speed.
>
> For the time being we would run the smoke tests on our internal test
> infrastructure and publish the result on the Eclipse web site.
>
> After Indigo we would try to move the tests to test instances provided by
> the foundation on their servers.
>
> We plan to work on this with 2 people, but not full time. We have a budget
> for .5 persons :-) until end of 2012. If this work will be successful I'm
> sure we will continue working on it.
>
> We have some tests ready. If there are no -1 on our proposal we will create
> a Bugzilla entry and contribute this initial tests.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Felix Ziesel
>
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Steffen Pingel
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