Quality assurance

Introduction

Sometimes the GNUstep does not work as expected or can not be built at all. If the actual code which gets committed (which IMHO is really a basline requirement) was tested then this should not happen. Things which break the entire build cycle should be taken more seriously.

Aperez: I'd also like to set this up for win32, since that seems to be the thing that breaks fairly often as other patches go into -core.

Compilability test

As it is frustrating to check out CVS and have it fail to build for such a trivial reason.

Some sort of automated QA mechanism is necessary, where, upon a new CVS check-in to -base, for example, it is be checked out by an automated QA system and compiled on Linux/x86 as a baseline test. The results of the compilation would be placed on a webpage. If compilation breakage to any part of -core happened, a message would be sent to -dev notifying the core team that this had happpened, the offending file, and the version of the file in CVS at which the breakage occurred.

Idea of a primitive test script for compilability:

cd test_directory
rm -rf core GNUstep-test-root
cvs co core
cd core
./build-all $test_directory/GNUstep-test-root &> test-log.txt