Bring Your Smoke Tests to Life

Presented by Michael Peters

Abstract

So you've written your regression tests and you run them periodically, now what? Does your entire team respect them and run them before every commit? Do developers continue developing even though tests are breaking? Do some tests fail on certain machines and not others? How does your team share test results? Project Managers, can you verify that your test suite is actually working? All of these are good questions that need better answers than most development teams currently have.

Enter Smolder. Smolder is a stand-alone Smoke Test Server designed to fill all of those gaps. It is designed to be used by developers and testers to upload (automated or manually) and view smoke/regression tests using the Test Anything Protocol. TAP was invented by Perl programmers but is language agnostic with implementations in Perl, C, PHP, Python, Java and Javascript.

Test details and trends can be viewed in various formats (HTML, XML, YAML) and also received via email. This means that all developers can be immediately notified if the automated tests are failing and that Project Managers can instantly see the progress of the test suite.

As developers and project managers, we have bug-trackers, wiki's, version control and mailing lists. It's time to add one more tool to the kit and raise our tests suites to the next level.

Details

Time: 3:00 PM
Length: 30 minutes
Room: pair Networks