Re: [orca-list] [VINUX] Call to Arms

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com>

> Here's an idea for regression testing.
> Can we setup a server somewhere to automatically run the test sweet
> every so often, and post the results somewhere or mail them to people
> who will look at the results and take the needed action?  This
> shouldn't be too hard to setup if we can get a machine to use, I'm
> willing to help with this.  The benefits as I see it are that a person
> doesn't have to spend the time the tests take waiting, and people who
> aren't comfortable setting up the test sweet can help with reading
> over the results.

Instead of setup a new server, one option would first check if we
could execute this regression tests on the current gnome integration
system, the GNOME buildot [1].

After all, it is already compiling orca every ofter [2], so we could
check if we can add this regression tests in the check step, and show
a summary, as gtk+ [3] or cairo [4] does.

The main problem could be that this servers doesn't run a X server. In
order to run some of the tests in some modules (cairo and gtk) they
use xvfb (Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server). Not sure if at-spi
would work fine with it. It would be also required to check if we
could run at-spi there.

But this is a possibility that probably we should investigate.

Opinions? Ideas?

[1] http://build.gnome.org/
[2] http://build.gnome.org/orca
[3] http://build.gnome.org/builders/gtk%2B-RHEL5/builds/410/steps/gtk%2B%20check/logs/summary
[4] http://build.gnome.org/builders/cairo-RHEL5/builds/413/steps/cairo%20check/logs/summary

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