Regressions || Huston we have a problem

Thorsten Zachmann t.zachmann at zagge.de
Fri Jul 15 15:27:00 BST 2011


On Friday, July 15, 2011 13:52:26 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> On Friday 15 July 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Friday 15 July 2011 Jul, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> > > Aloha,
> > > 
> > > yesterday at the ODF plugfest 2011 (
> > > http://www.opendocsociety.org/news/2011- berlin-plugfest/ ) we had two
> > > interoperability tests and failed on both of them. It seems both where
> > > working at some point but cause of regressions didn't any longer at the
> > > event. That is a problem.
> > > 
> > > Let me add that the problem are NOT the regressions. That can happen.
> > > The problem is that we did not discover them for more then a month
> > > till that event.
> > > 
> > > So, the question is how to improve that situation to make sure we are
> > > able to discover regressions faster?
> > > 
> > > I see two ways;
> > > 1. unittests also for saving.
> > 
> > We need those...
> > 
> > > 2. cstester roundtrips.
> > 
> > And those as well. Jos' server checks whether we can actually load all
> > the kofficetests document, and even there we have failures.
> 
> jos's server does check whether it saves (and validation too I think ?). I
> am trying to setup that on cruncher as well.
> 
> However, it mostly test if there are crashes, especially since we don't
> have a proper way to validate the documents from calligra, since the
> koffice and calligra extension namespace are not in the validation schema,
> so someone would have to do that work.
> 
> But I guess it is also different of what Sebastian describe, for which we
> need a volunteer to write the script that takes care of it.

If I can get informations on how to set it up on the server I can work on it. 
I will start with updating cstester so that roundtripping works as it should. 
Who should I contact about setting it up on the server?

Thorsten



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