Unit Tests

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>:
>> thanks to Sven Krohlas and Google (Summer of Code), we do have unit
>> tests in Amarok now. However, I think we're not really using them to
>> their full potential yet. Mainly that's because using them is a bit
>> awkward, as the output is a fairly unreadable blob of raw XML.
>>
>> So I went ahead and wrote a HTML generator for that. It's a tiny Ruby
>> script, with the actual heavy lifting being done by a XSL
>> transformation. The output isn't exactly beautiful yet (we can still
>> polish it), but it's world ahead of parsing that XML with your eyes.
>> Here's some example output generated by my script:
>>
>> http://mark.kollide.net/amaroktest/Amarok.html
>>
>> This paves the way for my ultimate goal: Running the unit tests every
>> night on a server, and then posting the results somewhere, or maybe
>> even sending us a mail if there are critical regressions. Kevin
>> offered to use his server for that, so I think we're almost good to
>> go. My feeling is that once we have set this up we will start to use
>> the unit tests much more, as it won't be a big hassle any more. So,
>> should we go ahead with this plan?
>>
>>
>> PS:
>> Here's my script, and the XSL style sheet (XSL rocks!), if you want to
>> check it out:
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok/trees/master/tests/htmlgenerator
>
> On this note, I've been working to get a Bamboo Continuous Integration
> server setup to build and run Amarok. This would give us nice graphs,
> html output of results, jabber notifications, and most important, be
> run after every commit, so that we know exactly when a build breakage
> occurred.
>
> I'm working with Jeff to get this setup on one of his servers.
>
> Note: I'm not saying that having more than one solution is bad, but
> maybe we could pool our resources together and make one of these
> happen faster?

Ok, this sounds even better then. I wasn't aware of your plans.

I'll be happy with anything that we can get out soon :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org