RE: UK Informix meeting...

Posted in 2005

Martin Fuerderer — Fri, 27 May 2005 13:06:04 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Every night, the products are built from scratch (i.e. all objects are compiled anew, libraries built and then binaries are linked). The resulting products are then installed on test machines and tests are run against the products. All this and the following is done on different platforms as well (i.e. not just on the development platform). Not all tests are running on one machine in one night. Tests are "striped" across the test machines and the combination of test/machine is rotated. This way still all the tests are run every night. These tests ensure that if a new source code change causes a problem (aka "regression") this gets caught very early in the cycle and thus will be fixed early (immediately) for the next night's run. For this to work, all the tests need to be automated so that they can be run in an automated complex test framework. Results are kept for reference in a ... you guessed it ... IDS database. :) Additionally to these tests, there are other, more complex tests plus so called stress tests that are not fully automated but are still run at regular intervals. I hope this satisfies your curiosity. :) Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 26.05.2005 09:27:01: > Just curious, you say 60 000 regression tests - can you tell me a bit > more about this, what this means ? I attended an Infobahn last year > October, and was quite impressed by all the testing they do on IDS. > > > Regards > Dirk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of david@smooth1.co.uk > Sent: 25 May 2005 11:26 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: UK Informix meeting... > > > > Graham Nicholls wrote: > > > > > This sounds like flamebait, but isn't, I promise! Does Informix have a > > future? I have a friend who is an expert, and he reckons that it has, > but > > > Yes. IBM is investing more resources in Informix than Informix > themselves did. > They have more developers working on Informix than Informix did! > They do 60,000 regression tests per night...more than Informix did! > They have plans up to 2010.. > > > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list