From: Steve L. <ste...@hp...> - 2006-01-19 15:40:58
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And the final discussion topic is distributed testing: Where are we at, what do we need? 1. We have the non-distributed sf junit suite, 2. we have the arithmetic testharness to test that sf and those components distribute possibly. 3. There is a junit component that can deploy junit tests to remote nodes and then collect the results on a designated reporting node. There is nothing yet to make collected XML reports human readable, and there is no collection of events from multiple machines into a single test run. SmartFrog itself needs better distributed testing, so that we can deploy on different machines, collect the results, etc. We also think that distributed testing is itself an interesting research project, especially across grids of systems. The mygrid people run gridunit on many nodes because running (local) junit tests across a variety of machines is a great way of finding problems. I'm interested in distributed junit testing of the cddlm soap API, so that I can deploy a server on one node and run tests from another. I think the base components to do that are there, its just the reporting and IDE/ant integration to deal with, and the time needed to sit down and do it. What other needs do people have, and who else is interested in getting involved in this interesting research problem? -steve |