Announce mailing list, newsletter, TC & automated testing

[Drew Scott Daniels]

Hi,
It'd be nice if the announcement mailing list was still used. I'd
suggest announcing the weekly newsletter in order to keep the list
alive between releases. Can the "splash" newsletter be marked as dead? I
enjoyed splash's RSS feed. Even more I'd enjoy if the ReactOS (ros)
newsletter could become part of kernel cousin or have alike services.

The job of the TC came up recently, and thus automated testing. Does the
wine test suite run on ReactOS (it runs on Windows and wine)? Would it's
results be useful to the TC? Could it be extended? Maybe it needs to be
supplemented by something else. Codeweavers have software for automated
testing that may be worth looking at too.

     Drew Daniels
Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html

[WaxDragon]

The winetests "run" on ReactOS, but yield a great deal of failures at
the moment.  Automated testing is something that is being worked on as
a side project, mostly by people with the motivation.  If you are
interested in helping out, come visit us on IRC.

WD

On 11/19/05, Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels(a)umalumni.mb.ca> wrote:
>   Hi,
>  It'd be nice if the announcement mailing list was still used. I'd
>  suggest announcing the weekly newsletter in order to keep the list
>  alive between releases. Can the "splash" newsletter be marked as dead? I
>  enjoyed splash's RSS feed. Even more I'd enjoy if the ReactOS (ros)
>  newsletter could become part of kernel cousin or have alike services.
>
>  The job of the TC came up recently, and thus automated testing. Does the
>  wine test suite run on ReactOS (it runs on Windows and wine)? Would it's
>  results be useful to the TC? Could it be extended? Maybe it needs to be
>  supplemented by something else. Codeweavers have software for automated
>  testing that may be worth looking at too.
>
>       Drew Daniels
>  Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html
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>  

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<mikedep333> but if it isnt working, why is it even included on the CD?

[Drew Scott Daniels]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:15:36AM -0500, WaxDragon wrote:
>   The winetests "run" on ReactOS, but yield a
> great deal of failures at
>  the moment.  Automated testing is something that is being worked on as
>  a side project, mostly by people with the motivation.  If you are
>  interested in helping out, come visit us on IRC. 
[...]

I have and I will visit the irc more often again. I guess as well as
ros, I'm also interested in an alternative to something like Rational
Robot.

     Drew Daniels
Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html

[Drew Scott Daniels]

Hi,
So I visited the irc channel and talked with arty and others.

arty's "munger.zip" is a good start, and is what I was looking for.
It's
currently a unixen set of python scripts that use libvncclient. It can
be made to recognise on screen things by searching for exact matches (no
jpeg distortion). arty tells me that he's using qemu -vnc and thus I
believe doesn't need to run any testing software on the test machine. Of
course I believe it'll work across the network too which is useful for
when one needs to work with real hardware (although I haven't checked
yet).

Someone pointed me again at CodeWeaver's cxtest automated testing suite.
It's nice, but it requires that some software run on the test machine.
It's tests are targeted towards XWindows (X11), but I'm told it might be
able to be used on a Windows test machine as it's software uses wine to
run.

     Drew Daniels
Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html