[boost] Re: Regression testing and BuildBot discussions

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-21 15:42:42

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>The rationale behind the "timely" goal is that developers will benefit 
>>tremendously from faster feedback, both for HEAD and active branches. 
>>Automating the feedback will free developers from having to track what is 
>>happening on many different platforms.
> 
> Will it allow to test against non-HEAD branches? How would it work?

Perhaps the best response to the non-HEAD question is to post the 
configuration for the bot I'm currently running:

config['builders'].append( {
     "name" : "RSI-SoL-Full",
     "slavename" : "RSI-SoL",
     "builddir" : "rsi_sol_full",
     "factory" : Boost_BuildFactory(
         action('cvs'
             ,root = ':ext:grafik_at_[hidden]:/cvsroot/boost'
             ,module = 'boost'
             ,files = []
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         action('bjam_build'
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         action('btest_all'
             ,toolset = 'gcc-3_4_3-linux-i686-release'
             ,build = 'release'
             ,env = { 'PYTHON_ROOT': '/usr', 'PYTHON_VERSION': '2.3' }
             ,flunkOnFailure = False, warnOnFailure = True),
         action('test_tools_build'
             ,toolset = 'gcc'
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         action('process_jam_log'
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         action('collect_results'
             ,runner = 'RSI-SoL'
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         action('publish_results'
             ,runner = 'RSI-SoL'
             ,publish_location = 'ftp://fx.meta-comm.com/boost-regression'
             ,haltOnFailure = True),
         workdir = 'boost',
         branch = 'HEAD',
         source_type = 'CVS'
         )
     } )

As you can see testing on other branches is changing the "branch = HEAD" 
option above. Not that I've tried this yet :-) So it's likely to have 
initial problems. For those curious I added the code to the sandbox CVS 
under boost-sandbox/tools/boostbot/.

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