April 2011 Archives

Perl QA Hackathon 2011 - Day 3

Too bad I need to leave so early.

I made progress on setting up my preferred applications "Tapper" and "Codespeed":

I configured them, played around with them, injected example values, etc.

Besides that I had some progress with SpamAssassin. After
accessing the repo (using git-svn) I found an ok looking version
3.3.2 waiting there that passes all tests on Perl 5.12.3. I volunteered in spamass…

Perl QA Hackathon 2011 - Day 2

Day 2 was full of Yak shaving. It was not very convincing at first sight

I basically struggled on 2 topics:

  1. Polish the applications that receive and present the test and benchmark data. At least I now have a Tapper instance running on http://perlformance.net. Though, it still needs actual data fed into it. …

Perl QA Hackathon 2011 - Day 1

Short summary before the day closes:

  • Started installation of a Tapper instance for tracking Perl benchmarks.
  • Set up own CPAN mirror to be used as stable base for Benchmark::Perl::Formance.
  • Asked AndyA to resurrect the TAP v13 spec to testanything.org. Succeeded.
  • Wrote App::Prove::Plugin::Idempotent, based on refactoring by AndyA to allow overriding the final summary "ok" line in Test::Harness.
  • Made Data::DPath maintenance release, requested by rafl.
  • Received fix for Class::MethodMaker/users/steffen_schwigon/2011/04/index.html

Tapper - a test infrastructure

Tapper includes:

  • Automation
  • Machine Scheduling
  • Command line utilities
  • Web Frontend application
  • Support for writing tes…

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