Running Unit Tests

[Seb Ruiz]

2009/8/5 Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de>:
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> Heya,
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>> Is there no way to run amarok --test in it's own sandbox mode? Or
>> perhaps trigger tests by calling `make tests` instead?
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> Currently not.
> We could maybe set up some kind of build bot on a webserver,
> updating and builing after each checkin and running the tests
> afterwards. Then a small website showing the results.
> Maybe even on different platforms and distributions (using
> some virtual machines).
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> With that we could get notified automatically when breakage
> occurs.

Atlassian has a tool called Bamboo [0], which is a Continuous
Integration server which can run arbitrary tests after each commit. It
has a web UI and does notifications and other fancy things. Like
FishEye, we can get an open source license.

Perhaps this is an option.

[0] http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/


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