[Anthill-pro] Functional tests configuration best practices

[emerson cargnin]

Thanks, but still, it would be of great value to have a full fledge
project on anthill to people learn from and to learn good practices.

also regarding job libraries, there seems to not have much
documentation available about it, only a short explanation how to set
it or to use it in other workflows. It would be really great if
someone could step in and tell how to best re-use it job libraries,
how extract variables out of the job library (i presume using project
properties), what are the best granularity to have jobs libraries and
so on

thanks
emerson

On 29/02/2008, Eric Minick <etm at urbancode.com> wrote:
> 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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