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

[Steven Ayre]

Just to say I think you all do a great job with FreeSWITCH. :)

-Steve



On 4 February 2011 17:01, Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>wrote:

> I guess we should try to be more like all the other open source
> projects where every single day of GIT HEAD is perfect.
> hmm....
>
> The alternative is you can buy a soft-switch and live with it's faults
> and pay annually for an update.
> Or even wait for our official releases which are very infrequent and
> not well-supported once they are more than a few months old.
>
> Also don't forget we use FreeSWITCH in a real product so you don't
> even see the amount of testing and QA we inherit from that product as
> well as all the large carriers who use FreeSWITCH and do their best to
> try beta version for us.  Thank you all.....
>
> We have plans to stable branch soon.  I guess that means everyone will
> flock to that and it will be the end of my beta testers.
> We do not only get regressions from features we get them sometimes
> from fixes as well, other peoples patches, many factors.
>
> I guess what's really saddening since you bring up asterisk, is that I
> spent years using it with perpetual problems in the release or the
> daily snapshot and it sort of has a reputation for this kind of thing
> and all you hear about is how awesome it is from people.  I don't
> appreciate being treated like a witch hunt over one regression
> especially when we can fix it in 1 minute.  That double-standard is
> ridiculous.
>
> I should just make a FAQ about this and paste in the URL:
>
> We only have so much time to give to the world, we spend like 8-14
> hours a day on average working on the code.
> Any suggestions or improvements (even the ones with the best
> intentions) are only viable if they come with volunteers.
>
> Bottom line is by downloading and building the code you are opting in
> to our community which involves occasional speed bumps.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:34 AM, jesse <chat2jesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not see any piece of unit testing code neither.
> > Reliability is more important than feature. Asterisk is a good example of
> > such case.
> >
> > I would recommend developers take a pause to add unit testing cases and
> auto
> > integration testings.  Also enforce any future code must be accompanied
> by
> > unit testing code.
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2011 9:47 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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