Re: Test platform coverage requirements

Rob Nicholson wrote:

zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote on 16/05/2008 12:10:51: To extend this for other platforms I believe we need: (a) To modify run-tests.php to send something more easily parsed than a mail. Probably xml?. Are you suggesting to send the XML by some transport other than email? Not necessarily :-) In fact wouldn't have to be XML either, we could just parse the email using - let me see - regex?

The other problem with e-mail is that I believe it doesn't work on Windows, although I don't know why or, indeed if anything else would work better. Very possibly not.

It seems to me that sending the XML using email as a transport is a good idea, rather than say using a REST service. I suggest that email is more likely to get through corporate firewalls. I have worked for companies where all "test" machines were behind a firewall that did not permit arbitrary internet access but did allow access to corporate email gateways. I think you may have worked for the same company :-) Can't think who you mean :-)

Not sure how common this is. (b) Somewhere to send the test results (subdirectory on the gcov machine?). This could be populated from email. (c) Something to parse process the reports regularly and display them & regular clean up of old report files. (d) Something to create a summary table over all tested platforms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ / / /Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU/