Hello everybody,
As you might have noticed, I recently did some changes to our Website stuff and Regression Testing System. Finally, it's time to show some results now:
== BuildBot upgrade == Christoph reinstalled the latest version of BuildBot on our Swedish server today, since the previous server system was way too old for such an upgrade. This also had the uncomfortable side-effect of the BuildBot URL changing from http://reactos.org:8010 to http://build.reactos.org:8010, which most of you already seem to have noticed ;-)
Sorry for not giving a note about this before. I thought I could just finish my stuff and then write this E-Mail explaining all changes, but as always, it took longer than expected :-/
== Crash Recovery in rosautotest and sysreg2 == In the recent days, I rewrote rosautotest in C++ for getting a more maintainable code. This update also added a Crash Recovery feature. Together with my updated version of sysreg2, we can now resume the testing process with the next test in case a specific test made ReactOS crash.
== Web Test Interface == As we recently set up a new VM, which will eventually replace our current outdated www.reactos.org server, I finally had a playground for my third component of our testing system: The "testman" Web Interface. It is available at http://79.99.5.181/testman/
Features include finding specific test results through a getbuilds-like interface and comparing them. The Comparison feature can compare up to 5 results side-by-side and show the differences. Clicking on "Show only changed results" will only show the lines that have differences. You can also use Drag & Drop to move the column headers with all associated results to get the table to look like you want it. Clicking a test result will show details, including a log of this specific test.
Just play around with it a bit and you should easily get to know about all features.
Regarding Lone_Rifle's interface at http://reactos.nxserve.net: From what he told me, this one was only meant as a decentral alternative as long as we don't have "testman" on an official server. I'm saying this, so nobody gets the impression that I just wanted to extinguish his work with my implementation. If some people prefer Lone_Rifle's version over mine, it would just need to be adjusted to the new BuildBot URL and those people could still use it.
Comments and suggestions are welcome of course. Not everything works perfect yet (e.g. the Debug Buildslave needs quite some time now as all tests are run), but it should be ready for you to try now.
Best regards,
Colin