[pgpool-hackers: 217] Re: Build farm for pgpool-II?

[Bruce Momjian]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04:24PM +0500, Ahsan Hadi wrote:
> +1 I was thinking about the need for creating a automated testing framework for
> pgpool on our call this morning. I think it is really important to have an
> automated regression test suite, it will be really helpful for any further
> development that we do with pgpool. We can have the test suite run in an
> automated fashion overnight against all the supported branches and the master
> branch. The goal would be keep the regression suite at zero failures all the
> time. 
> 
> I agree that it is going to more complex then the regular regression test suite
> that comes with PG. We would need a framework that uses shell scripts because
> it would need starting/stopping the database and other activities.
> 
> The first step is come up with generic framework for the test suite then we can
> list down the functionality we need to add to the test suite and the order in
> which it should be done.  

I would look at pg_upgrade's test program, which has similar
requirements:

	contrib/pg_upgrade/test.sh

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