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Subject: Re: Looking for testing on the Struts upgrade
From: Brett Porter <brett@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:31:29 +1000
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I did as much testing as I could, and I've gone ahead and pulled a =
release together - will put a vote out now. We can always roll again if =
any blockers are found.

Thanks,
Brett

On 23 May 2014, at 12:21 pm, Brett Porter <brett@apache.org> wrote:

>=20
>=20
> On 23 May 2014, at 12:21 am, Brent Atkinson <brent.atkinson@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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>> I have had challenges verifying using the web tests. It seems the =
tests are
>> not repeatable unless I rebuild the whole project. I recall that =
there were
>> some commits to ensure repeatable tests. Should I expect running =
clean
>> install in the continuum-webapp-test directory multiple times will =
give the
>> same result without a clean build?
>=20
> When you say clean build, you mean rebuilding the other modules? Yes, =
that should never be needed unless you make changes. If you run mvn =
clean install in the webapp-test directory, that will wipe out the whole =
installation and start over from the last built war, so there should be =
no reproducibility issues due to existing data (though there might be =
some due to general flakiness).
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> The reproducibility commits where so that tests could be run =
repeatedly from the IDE without cleaning the target directory or =
restarting the test server.
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> That said, the testing I think would be most interesting at the moment =
are the things the webapp tests don't cover - like pages where =
formatting doesn't look right. The Struts upgrade changed some of the =
HTML tags they rendered.
>=20
> - Brett
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