Re: [gnome-desktop-testing] A thought about integrating Mago to desktop project source

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Tim,

Sounds interesting... Where can I/we find out more information about 
Mago?  How does this relate to the LDTP work?


Peter

> Hi there,
>
> The GNOME desktop testing project/Mago is stepping forward, more and
> more people are involving and contributing to this great project. Ara
> did make a great presentation on this year GUADEC, and presentation
> attracted much people there, people show their interests on this
> automating testing framework.
>
> This reminds me, could we integrate this automation testing framework to
> the desktop project source code? To add a testing line in makefile, so
> that each time when developer changes the code, builds the application,
> the automation testing will be executed to make sure there will be no
> serious regression introduced.
>
> Mago/GNOME desktop testing has set up a bzr/git repository to store the
> automation test cases for some application, and test cases are still in
> developing. To introduce the automation testing to project source will
> help both project owner to find out bugs and Mago/GNOME desktop testing
> team to implement more automated test cases. Everyone will benefit from
> this, I think.
>
> I discussed this idea with Ara in irc channel, she also agreed with this
> proposal, so I'd like to send this idea out for getting more feedbacks.
> Any thoughts, suggestions and comments are always welcome. If GNOME
> community could accept this, I think that would be a great thing for
> both developers and QAs.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards.
> -Tim Miao
> Sun Desktop QA Team
>
>