[Anthill-pro] Functional tests configuration best practices

[Eric Minick]

Hi Emerson,

On the separation of the deployment and functional test workflows, 
either approach is fine. Generally you don't want to run functional 
tests on every deployment since that doesn't always make sense in 
production, but if the deployment process is fast, you can redeploy on 
every functional test execution.

The post-deployment steps are pretty typical practice. The most common 
item there is the promotion to the status matching the environment we 
deployed to. We decide not to grant that status unless both parts of the 
deployment work successfully. Neither job knows much about the other, so 
we need a third job to execute afterwards that runs that step. We have 
some other steps tossed in there as well, but that's the main one that 
needs to be there.

We should be able to show you the configuration, send an email to one of 
the guys in the office with some times that work for you and they can 
probably get something set up.

-- Eric

emerson cargnin wrote:
> Hi
>
> At this moment I have my deploy workflow to call the functional tests job.
> I saw in the CM crossroads presentation a build life for the XPetstore
> and it shows a workflow as a separate workflow. Also in the deploy
> workflow you have a post deployment steps, I'm interested in seeing
> what you have on that one.
>
> I would be really really really helpful if I could get my eyes on this
>  configuration.
> I thing I could extract a great amount of best practices from there.
> Or you could make it available as an read only user for this project
> or you could setup a full version that I could import into a derby db
> configured AHP.
> Either way I think this could help a lot, not only me as a lot of AHP
> users that sometimes feel unsure on the best way of doing trivial
> tasks.
>
> also, should the functional tests workflow an originating one? If not,
> I would have to find out to which server  I deployed the build so that
> |I could run the tests against it. It would be good to have some ideas
> on this subject.
>
> Thanks
> Emerson Cargnin
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