on Tue Aug 05 2008, Eric Niebler <eric-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
A similar tool that looked at web sites would be a nice QA addition. It would check for the presence of specified files and verify their date was recent, for a definition of recent specific to each file. Maybe check file size, too, or even some content.
OK, but that doesn't address the concern about test reporting. Currently, it takes a human (you, Rene, people on the boost-testing list) to manually verify that the results are being updated.
I think the way we're displaying these results has a lot to do with the problem. A display like http://bitten.edgewall.org/build/trunk would show us continuously and immediately if some platform's tests were not up-to-date. It's totally unworkable that someone has to notice that one or more platforms haven't posted results in a while. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com