Re: [epp-dev] Testautomation for EPP

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Sounds very interesting, very useful. I assume once people see it in EPP packages ... they'd be tempted to use it in many projects at Eclipse?

Is this a "replacement" for the Platform's "test framework", or (I'd guess) more of a wrapper, to it and other test runners?

> (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)

You probably already know this, but in case not, there are some "common" package testing recommendations that might serve as a rough starting point, at http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Package_Testing

Thanks,

Felix Ziesel ---05/05/2011 04:43:08 AM---Hi EPP Team, I work as Test Consultant for BREDEX. We maintain the functional testing

From:	Felix Ziesel <Felix.Ziesel@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	05/05/2011 04:43 AM
Subject:	[epp-dev] Testautomation for EPP
Sent by:	epp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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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