on Thu Aug 09 2007, Daniel Wallin <daniel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
on Wed Aug 08 2007, "John Maddock" <john-AT-johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Just thinking out loud here, but I've always thought that our test results should be collected in a database: something like each test gets an XML result file describing the test result, which then gets logged in the database. The display application would query the database, maybe in real-time for specific queries and present the results etc.
Sure, that's what the Trac plugin would do.
Thinking somewhat outside the box here ... but could SVN be conscripted for this purpose,
The biggest downside of that idea is that it would be very expensive in SVN resources to ever give real-time feedback from testing, because you'd need a separate checkin for each build step.
.. And it would clutter our revision history with test log checkins.
Yes, that exactly puts a finger on something I was worried about but couldn't articulate. On the other hand, that's something you deal with any time you have lots of semi-unrelated activity in source control. For example, the sandbox and the boost release tree are all together (not to mention all the separate libraries).
And we'd loose all capability of making complex queries on the data.
What did you have in mind?
What are the upsides to using svn for this, when there are proper databases available?
Good question. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com