Re: Re:[boost] [Boost.Test] New testing procedure?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-23 21:35:16

Roman Yakovenko writes:
> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> > a) incremental cylces, with a full rebuild once a week or 
> > something similar
> >    (here at Meta, for instance, are currently doing full 
> > rebuild on every 
> >    cycle);
> >    
> > b) distributed testing of libraries, with the following 
> > merging of results 
> >    into a single report.
> 
> I agree with Aleksey. I am using boost a lot in my work. 
> So I would like to give something back. I can test CVS version of boost
> on WinXP + compiler of MS Visual Studio 7.1. And at home on 
> "Fedora Core 2" gcc 3.4.
> 
> The question is what should I send back? 

Ideally, the test results in XML that would be then merged and processed 
to generate a boost-wide report. 

A bigger issue is that the procedure how to set up and maintain regression 
tests is largely undocumented and under-automated. The regression system 
we use here at Meta solves the latter part, but it needs to be documented 
too; I hope to get it posted sometime next week. 

--
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering