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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery quality assurance
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:16:02 -0800

I was just thinking that a special qa grimoire ought to be made for
this. Why don't we come up with a small team to get together and make
this fly at the meeting.

-Andrew

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:14:51PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> Well, a grimoire with spells designed to test various situations would
> probably be needed... lets see...
>
> - If not A nor B are installed, and A depends on B, and A is cast, B is
> cast as well.
>
> - As above but with A needing B and B needing C. Casting A would cast A,
> b, and C.
>
> - A spell that has an addition to /etc/services adds it when cast and
> removes it when dispelled. And doesn't toast the rest of the file.
>
> - As above for xinetd and init.d
>
> - After casting anything, the state/depends, state/packages, and
> activity log are not doasted and the packages and activity log have the
> correct additions
>
> There's a start. There are a lot of other things that should be added
> though.
>
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:51, Andrew wrote:
> > > Unless there is a checklist that must be run through before a stable p4
> > > gets published, I don't think it'll help much. Or unit testing, but unit
> > > testing isn't going to happen. Some test could be automated in a similar
> > > way as prometheus... that would be quite an undertaking though.
> > >
> > come up with some test cases, and the expected behavior and I'll automate
> > something to test for regressions.
> >
> > -Andrew
> --
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