What to do with test results

[M Breugelmans]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 16.09.08 21:36:51, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
>> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 21:04:42 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> > I've now setup a nightly runs of ctest for kdevplatform and kdevelop on
>> > my work machine. Including xml output from QTest. We've got a few fails
>> > but it looks better than I thought. I'm now wondering what to do with
>> > the results. I could send the .log file out to the list, which is just
>> > the summary information and provide the xml output on demand. Or I could
>> > see wether I can setup a place on my server where the logs from the last
>> > run are available. Unfortunately the machine is not available directly
>> > from the net.
>> >
>> > If anybody wants to write an xslt file to transform I could produce html
>> > output as well.
>> >
>> > Opinions?
>> As a first step let the cron job send a mail to the ml.
>>
>> Latter we could try to allocate a server for it, and do the xslt stuff.
>
> I already have a server (got my own root-machine since 2003), so hosting
> just the .xml files isn't that much of a problem - unless I hundreds of
> people fetch the files per hour :) The xslt stuff would definetly take
> some time, the question is mostly wether its "ok" if I send the verbose
> output only if someone asks for it, or if the devs want "easier" access
> via a download on a server.
>
> BTW: One bad side of our tests is that they require a running XServer -
> not a big deal on my work machine, but elsewhere that might be
> different.
>
> Andreas
>

ETA? I think a summary to this list is sufficient for now. It has
pretty low traffic anyway.


Manuel