I suspect that it would be of value, however, remember that you are
constrained to those OSes that run on Intel chips, and at the moment, I
believe, only a subset of those. I know that Linux can host winnt, win2k,
linux, Solaris, and possibly one or two others. I'm not sure how well
things like BSD would do, although they would probably do OK. However, you
won't be able to test under HP-UX 11, for instance, unless you can get for
Intel, which I don't think you can.
MikeA
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Birch [mailto:sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:24 PM
>> To: PostgreSQL-hackers
>> Subject: [HACKERS] Daily regression testing via vmware - useful?
>>
>>
>> What is the current state of regression testing on the CVS tree? Are
>> the regression tests performed once in a while, or routinely? If
>> performed once in a while, perhaps the following would idea
>> would be of
>> interest:
>>
>> I am kicking around the idea of using one of my old machines
>> (a P90) to
>> run nightly regression tests on the CVS tree. The idea
>> would be to use
>> vmware to set up multiple virtual machines, one for each OS or
>> distribution (Linux clib, Linux glib, FreeBSD, etc. etc.). Perhaps
>> even multiple versions of the same OS/dist (RH6.0, RH6.1,
>> SuSE 6.1, SuSE
>> 6.2) to catch subtle changes between versions if they are
>> known to be a
>> problem.
>>
>> That way, I could conduct a daily automatic regression test
>> on them all.
>>
>> A program (probably python) would combine the outputs into
>> an HTML table
>> of OS version vs. test result. All developers would then be able to
>> keep an eye on the effects their changes have on other platforms.
>>
>> Would this be of value , or waste of effort ????
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> PS
>>
>> Looks like I am going to be offline for about 3 weeks so will not be
>> able to pick up replies to this question until I get back. If you
>> reply, be sure to Cc sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com so I
>> don't lose the
>> reply.
>>
>>
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