[pgpool-hackers: 214] Re: Build farm for pgpool-II?

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> +1 I was thinking about the need for creating a automated testing framework
> for pgpool on our call this morning. I think it is really important to have
> an automated regression test suite, it will be really helpful for any
> further development that we do with pgpool. We can have the test suite run
> in an automated fashion overnight against all the supported branches and
> the master branch. The goal would be keep the regression suite at zero
> failures all the time.
> 
> I agree that it is going to more complex then the regular regression test
> suite that comes with PG. We would need a framework that uses shell scripts
> because it would need starting/stopping the database and other activities.
> 
> The first step is come up with generic framework for the test suite then we
> can list down the functionality we need to add to the test suite and the
> order in which it should be done.

BTW, standard PostgreSQL *serial* regression test is still usefull for
pgpool-II, not all tests passed though.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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