Hi Steve,
I'm sure I remember talk of remote junit tests on ant-dev a while back (a year??), couldn't find references recently though... was it you that was interested then? Anyone else? - would have thought others were interested at least! Anyway comments / questions inline:
Steve Loughran wrote:
FYI, I am trying to add remote JUnit stuff to the smartfrog framework I work on by day;
Hmmm, smartfrog... as in http://smartfrog.sf.net? How does that compare to IBM's STAF http://staf.sf.net?
> the idea being you could deploy code on serverA, then
run tests on clients B,C and D.
I've recently been tasked with automating our test environment and am planning something along these lines myself. If you want someone to help develop / test the solution then I'm quite possibly your man (assuming smartfrog looks up to the job).
So whats your plan regarding syncrhonisation? would the build block until all tests have completed and produce results or would the tests be forked and results be collected later? And what about testbox selection - do you expect to simply run all tests on all boxes running a smartfrog daemon?
> I'm just getting to grips with
RMI-transport of Junit results, then comes the test runner itself, which will be slightly different from the Ant one. I'm going to generate files in the same format as the ant ones, so they would all integrate together. I fear I may have to add some better reporting once we do start running tests on multiple machines, as you would want a summary report for each machine (including machine config information)
Amen to that - heppy to muck in though.
For the record I've also been considering alternative methods:
- Use STAF to upload data to each test box and run an ant script
- Use a custom daemon process that grabs builds from a central location and posts results back - probably playing with a webservice / XML-RPC (Had forgotten about RMI).
- Hunt down RANT (aha! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/remoteant/) and see if thats up to the job.
If anyone has comments / other ideas to add then I'm all ears.
Rob
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