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Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces



hi,

> It seems to me that the right way for packages to offer their tests in
> the source tree.  As I say in the wiki page:

I'm interested in QA of packages, especially those that I 
actually develop and maintain. Currently Debian does not 
provide an easy-enough infrastructure for easy regression testing, 
such that sometimes regression testing before upload isn't happening 
at all.

Technically, it's possible using pbuilder and using the following 
example script:
	/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B92test-pkg
(which no longer currently works, should be fixed)

which invokes scripts under debian/pbuilder-test/* 
after running a normal pbuilder build.

This follows the approach of debian-test package
which was removed some time ago with the allegation
it wasn't used (it was used by me at least..)


My current interest is speeding up pbuilder invocation using cow file
system, and I'm planning on fixing up other test related stuff after
that, since introducing a functional cow file system support in
pbuilder will improve the speed of debugging pbuilder itself.


regards,
	junichi

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dancer@{debian.org,netfort.gr.jp}   Debian Project



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