[Anthill-pro] Functional tests configuration best practices

[emerson cargnin]

Rewgarding the "post deployment steps" job posted on the CM
presentation , which is the status assigned at the beggining of the
job? I really would like to see the content of each of the steps.

If it's not easy to get an entire release of the server with the
xpetstore, a suggestion would be to create a user that could only see
the configuration on your own server.

thanks
emerson

On 25/03/2008, emerson cargnin <echofloripa.yell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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