[sakai2-tcc] auto test-driven dev infrastructure

[Nate Angell]

On Ian Boston's suggestion, I'm crossposting this thread from the
Nakamura lists here to the TCC. The relevant info is around automating
patching mechanisms from issue trackers that applies patches and runs
tests. Ian thought something like that might be useful in the CLE
development/testing environment.

Let me know if you don't grok the info and/or want more info.

- Nate


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ian Boston <ieb at tfd.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [sakai-nakamura] Setting proxy in nakamura
To: sakai-kernel at googlegroups.com


Thanks,
that all makes sense,
I think it would be easy to do on our codebase/infrastrucutre since
Git was designed to do this sort of integration with automation and we
can use Confluence APIs to post the outcomes,
I will have a think about it and get back to you, as there may be some
security issues.... like how do we stop unsafe patches hacking the
test server.


However,
I think Sakai2 needs this much more than we do, since IIRC there is a
backlog over 100 patches in their queues, has anyone suggested doing
this on the TCC ?
Ian

On 2 Dec 2010, at 16:53, Nate Angell wrote:

> This is probably the best starting place for learning more about
> Drupal.org's test driven development infrastructure:
> http://drupal.org/project/Drupaltestbed
>
> If you'd like to learn more from a person, I can connect you to Amazon
> (Kieran Lal).
>
> - Nate
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Ian Boston <ieb at tfd.co.uk> wrote:
>> I would like to understand more, but URLs are good if you have them, I am happy to read.
>> Ian
>>
>> On 2 Dec 2010, at 16:00, Nate Angell wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone wants an introduction to folks in the Drupal community to
>>> learn more about their testing processes, let me know.
>>>
>>> - Nate
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Ian Boston <ieb at tfd.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2 Dec 2010, at 14:08, David Horwitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1 for a jira on this - this would be a requirement for deploying
>>>>> Nakamura in our environment
>>>>>
>>>>> For comparison see the similar issue from the Drupal bug list:
>>>>> http://drupal.org/node/7881
>>>>
>>>> Wow,
>>>> They appear to have a auto patching mechanism from their issue tracker that applies patches and runs tests. (probably old news to those using Drupal)....  I wonder if we could write a script to do that with Hudson ?