Re: [PEAR-QA] is_a() and the need for improved testing

[email protected] ("Daniel O'Connor") Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:12:02 +0930
Newsgroups php.pear.qa
Message-ID <CAJsZyFAgtf3hauAzuoEqfGY8b1Z2Y_N7qXWJtFvhZZZh55nB4g@mail.gmail.com>
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> 2) The output needs to be tracked.  New failures/etc need to generate a
> notification to the QA team or something.
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> Yeah; I agree - I thought I  had cruise control working right; and there is
an RSS feed of new errors; but the amount of visibility it actually gives
you it pitiful.

Having played with jenkins at work briefly; and having seen the amount of
effort it takes to coax cruisecontrol to work; I'd consider switching rather
than fixing.

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>  5) Nearly all of the PHPUnit tests and some of the phpt tests are choking
> on the inability to find required files.
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Where this is phpunit 3.5 vs phpunit 3.4; it's generally easy to clean up.

Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit_Runner_BaseTestRunner' not found in
/usr/local/lib/php/pear/PHPUnit/TextUI/TestRunner.php on line 60

php -c ../php.ini -f
/home/clockwerx/packages-all/Image_Color/tests/AllTests.php

Previously; I've just selectively installed dependencies rather than muck
around with symlinks