[Owncloud] Automating what Frank means when he says "Please give it a really good hard test." Help build the test suite!

[Thomas Müller]

Am Freitag, dem 21.09.2012 um 19:07 schrieb Arthur Schiwon:
> Hi Tom
> 
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 11:20:25 AM you wrote:
> > My plan in terms of executing the test suite is based on heavy usage of
> > automated vm creation using vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/)
> > 
> > This is necessary to test ownCloud with a great variety of server
> > configurations: [sqlite, mysql, pg, (oracle?)] x [apache, nginx, lighttpd,
> > (IIS?)] x [....]
> 
> looks and sounds yummy!
> 
> > ldap - among other authentication backends will 'just' add another dimension
> > to this configuration space. 
> 
> excellent :)
> 
> > > Plus, it is not enough to check if configuring and login works, but also
> > > all  the other lovely things which are used for local users. Then
> > > however, some features do not work (e.g. current encryption, because
> > > password changes are unknown). Do you have a fluffy sweet recipe for
> > > this, too?
> > >
> > From a pure behavior driven testing approach I would expect that all
> > scenarios should 
> > work in any configuration combination.
> > 
> > Exceptions - as usual - prove the rule!
> 
> So I understand it's not a big deal to run all those test with an LDAP user. 
> Cool, looking very much forward!
> 
> Let me know if I can help you.
> 

Yes - you can!

As I have never setup any ldap server - can you please give me a short introduction on
which server you use and how set it up (the server itself and within owncloud)

Based on you input I'll prepare a vagrant box of owncloud with an ldap server inside.

THX,

Tom

> Cheers
> Arthur