I've heard it said that the only way to make sure all your functional pieces are there is to exercise the system such that those functional pieces are executed. This requires a good set of functional/system level tests for the application that can be run on an environment where the installer is used to install the application.
I think that "a) Get the development team to update the WiX code instead of doing it yourself" is very powerful in that it reduces translation/communication errors. Keep information local to whoever owns/knows the information. I typically see myself as a build/install engineer so my job is to build automation tools/frameworks for build/install tasks. The developers have the knowledge on how to install the application so my role there is to provide consulting services to help them learn how to express their desires in WiX code. That said... I usually get stuck with translating/implementing vague instructions provided by developers... *sigh* Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 5:02 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How People Validate Their Installers > > a) Get the development team to update the WiX code instead of doing it > yourself. > b) Do it yourself, and verify manually. > c) Don't verify anything, trusting in your WiX skills and/or wait for > a bug report to roll in when the developer figures out something is > wrong. > > I'm sure others have better solutions, but I haven't found any > substitute for manual testing of installers and then analyzing the log > files when something unexpected happens. > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:54 AM, jnewton<jonathan.new...@ni.com> wrote: > > > > I was curious to see how other people validate their installers to > ensure > > they install the correct files, registry keys, etc into the proper > > locations. For example, if somebody on your development team says a > file > > needs to be added to the installer and it needs to be installed into > xyz > > directory, how do yall verify it was installed? > > > > I would like to develop some automated test application that > determines > > this. > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-People- > Validate-Their-Installers-tp3278297p3278297.html > > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited > time, > > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will > have > > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full > prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited > time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will > have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full > prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
