[Anthill-pro] Functional tests configuration best practices

[emerson cargnin]

Hi Eric

So any chance that we could get ower hands on a full implementation of
the XPetStore on AHP?  I think this would be a great help for all.

thanks
emerson

On 06/03/2008, emerson cargnin <echofloripa.yell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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