[p2pu-dev] Suggestion for developemnt process

zuzel.vp zuzel.vp at gmail.com
Wed May 11 17:54:03 UTC 2011


We just have django tests -->
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/

At this point i think a CI server is an overkill but in the future
when the project grows it will be nice to have it.

-- 
Thanks,
    Zuzel

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Nadeem Shabir <ns at talis.com> wrote:
> Zuzel what level of automated testing do we have at the moment?
> I'm a little out of sync with our current development process ... but ...
> Should the development process not be tied into / supported by a continuous
> integration process? I.e. every check in into trunk is checked out by a CI
> server that builds, deploys, and runs any automated tests.  Should we be
> aiming to have a suite of unit tests, and a suite of acceptance or more
> functional tests written in something like Selenium that verifies that the
> application is working consistently across different browsers.  I've been
> using tools like SauceLabs to run a Selenium based test suite against
> multiple browser and os versions - and the net result is all developer
> checkins are tested automatically by the build server, which obviously means
> releases can then be deployed to live with confidence.
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2011 10:15, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11 May 2011 03:49, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
>> > This is part of the argument against moving to the new site earlier. I'm
>> > not
>> > opposed, but because we're going to have more and more real users on the
>> > new
>> > site we'll have to spend a fair amount of time making sure things work
>> > before we push them. The alternative is to be ready to fix things if
>> > they
>> > are broken after we push them (I tend to prefer this approach).
>>
>> I suspect the right solution is somewhere in the middle. The old site
>> is really starting to hurt us, and it would be great if we could move
>> sooner rather than later. But I agree with John that we don't want to
>> slow down development too much, and we also don't want real users to
>> get frustrated by serious bugs. Could we keep pushing (push-then-fix)
>> for now, and start increasing the testing / staging phase by a day at
>> a time as we take on more users?
>>
>> It might also be useful to have an alpha.p2pu.org where those with
>> interest and time, could always access the latest snapshot of
>> development progress, and help test.
>>
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