[Open-bio-l] Automated testing server; was [BioRuby] tutorial

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
>> You mean it runs the unit tests itself? Hmm - that may not fit with
>> type of Amazon machine Chris D is renting for testing.open-bio.org
>> (buildbot doesn't do any heavy lifting - a separate pool of slaves
>> run the unit tests).
>
> Yes, running junit tests is part of the Maven release process. (you
> can only make a release if the code compiles and all tests are
> passed). Since Java is coming with its own VM, we don't need to test
> on all possible architectures. Considering this, perhaps it would be
> sufficient to redirect http://testing.open-bio.org/biojava/ to
> http://source.rcsb.org:8080/cruisecontrol/  ...

That sounds like a practical short term solution :)

Let's give Chris D a chance to comment though.

Peter