[Freeswitch-users] Auto test FS install - now necessary?

[Madovsky]

FS team needs user as users need FS team...
maybe think to a script (developped by all possible users)
that test every new functionality...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Minessale" <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>
To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Auto test FS install - now necessary?


> I've been doing this a long time and it boils down to:
>
> 50% superstition/paranoia.
> 50% regressions from commits.
>
> Stop and think. Without people updating everyday and telling us when
> something is not right, we may never find out.
> Engaging in the community and this mailing list and irc is a community
> effort and its sometimes a BETA program too.
> Just like if this was a cool video game, you get to play it before
> everyone else.
> It's hard to follow every possible execution path and get into every
> nook and cranny of 3 million lines of code.
> Even with the best unit testing int the world, we can't do it without
> real people testing.
> If you stop updating or persuade others to stop, now we are in real 
> trouble.
>
> Also, pay attention to the GIT commit messages:
>
> This particular problem (which is fixed now btw) was committed with a
> warning to please test.
> There was a bigger problem earlier this week that resulted in some
> minority invasive changes and its easy to catch the problems and in
> the end the software is now more stable.
>
> commit f60fdf653dd2d7f8d3eaa6a9086e1f68bd993c59
> Author: Anthony Minessale <anthm at freeswitch.org>
> Date:   Wed Feb 2 16:22:43 2011 -0600
>
>    fix possible bad pointer in global vars (please test)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>> Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I've been seeing a lot of "I just 
>> updated
>> to latest git and X broke"
>> And that x is always something else...
>> I'm not a seasoned coder on this magnitude, but perhaps we can develop a
>> test suite (at least part of one) to test that a fresh install is
>> functioning?
>> A FULL test would probably be a huge undertaking and involve recqual for
>> testing media, too... Also, each mod would need to have it's own test 
>> suite.
>> Due to the rapid updating of FreeSWITCH this not be what you want to put
>> your effort into, but...
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2011 4:04 AM, "Anirudha Shimpi" <anu at familytv.com> wrote:
>>> Just downloaded (from git) and installed FS 1.0.7, however, every time I
>>> do
>>> originate user/1001 &park, FS crashes. Running Centos 5.5 64 bit.
>>>
>>
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