[infinispan-dev] Infinispan smoke tests?

[Galder Zamarreno]

On 09/04/2009 06:15 PM, Adrian Cole wrote:
> good idea.  CI can always run your smoke tests and help ensure they
> are at least run somewhere ;)
>
> The only thing that's a bugger is that the surefire plugin doesn't
> honor groups very well.  We'd have to name these tests *SmokeTest (or
> place in a different dir) and setup a special maven profile "smoke"
> which includes them in the integration-test phase.  As you might
> guess, we'd have to modify the default integration-test to exclude
> them.
>
> yay maven! ;)

WTF??? What the heck is the point of adding a group "smoke"? You'd also 
have to rename so that they're included??? That's just put me off tbh.

>
> -Adrian
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Galder
> Zamarreno<galder.zamarreno at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Due to the complexity of tests that have been added to the Infinispan
>> test suite, the time it takes to run the testsuite has almost doubled.
>> These tests (i.e. distribution rehashing, non-blocking state transfer)
>> need to be run, that's for sure.
>>
>> However, I was thinking whether we could create a brand new group of
>> tests called "smoke". The aim here is for the tests in that group to run
>> lightning fast and cover 90% of the testsuite.
>>
>> I think this would help find most of the regressions that are sometimes
>> introduced for not running the testsuite locally.
>>
>> Once hudson issues have been solved, we'll be in a better situation but
>> I still think having this 'smoke' group could help avoid regressions.
>> Obviously, the danger here is people always running this profile and
>> then discovering loads of test fails when the entire testsuite is run
>> but we have this issue now too.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> --
>> Galder Zamarreño
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache